[OSM-legal-talk] Adding a source to "Our contributors"

Mike Collinson mike at ayeltd.biz
Wed May 12 18:24:44 BST 2010


At 03:54 PM 12/05/2010, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>Hi,
>
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright lists a couple of the big
>contributors.  I'm not sure where the limit is, but there's a CC-By-SA
>source that we've been using in Poland for the last over two years,
>currently I estmate there must be 2 or 3 million nodes derived from
>that source in places where OSM didn't have local mappers.  Can/should
>it be added in that section?
>
>The note should probably look something like:
>Poland: contains data from UMP-pcPL maps.  Copyright UMP-pcPL contributors.
>
>I'd especially like to credit this project because they're a community
>project very similar in spirit and scope to OSM, mapping since 2001.
>
>I expect there are more such sources but all four listed on that page
>are from English-speaking countries so the communication probably has
>been better about these sources.


If their data is CC-By-SA, then we need to attribute them.  I see there is already a UMP-pcPL attribution under http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution and I've added a little more detail from your email.  However, I agree it would be a good courtesy to acknowledge at http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright also, I do not have access though. A cross link would be good.

Mike






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