[OSM-legal-talk] Proposed human readable contributor terms
Tom Hughes
tom at compton.nu
Fri May 14 22:57:45 BST 2010
On 14/05/10 22:53, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> The attribution part is there because of section #4 of the contributor
> terms:
>
> 4. At Your or the copyright holder’s option, OSMF agrees to
> attribute You or the copyright holder. A mechanism will be
> provided, currently a web page
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution
>
> They apply whether you're a new user or not. I don't see any reason
> why new users would care less about attribution than users that have
> signed up in the past.
The point is not that we don't need to explain how attribution is
handled but rather that we don't need to mention that it's a change
because a new user has no knowledge of previous arrangements.
In other words the first sentence of the last paragraph is not needed
for a new user.
Tom
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