[OSM-legal-talk] Proper attribution

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/10/25 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> wrote:
> > Assuming for a moment that my contributions to OSM are copyrightable and
> > the CC-BY-SA license is valid, then if I license my data CC-BY-SA I have
> > the right to request anyone using my data, or building or using derived
> > versions thereof, to provide attribution in the form I believe is
> > required, and I can drag them to court if they don't.
>
> No you don't. You've just given them permission to use your works
> under a license which dictates that distributors must attribute you
> within the limited scope demanded of them by the license. As long as
> they're otherwise in compliance you have no right to demand additional
> attribution not required by the license.
>
>
could you point me to the limitation part of the attribution in cc-by-sa?
AFAIK you have to attribute all contributors.

cheers,
Martin
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/attachments/20091027/bc67ef98/attachment.html>