[OSM-legal-talk] openstreetmap in some flash advertising

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Sun Nov 21 21:01:16 GMT 2010


On 11/21/2010 08:53 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
> Legally they might have to attribute OSM but I'm really thankful they
> don't, because what they have to sell is some shady software that claims
> to be able to "locate" people when in reality it's just an x-ray
> pornocam style rip-off and I would't want to see OSM mentioned in that
> context.

BY-SA does allow you to request the removal of attribution from 
derivative works (BY-SA 2.0 Generic 4.a). This might be useful in future 
to preventing OSM becoming associated with any other outbreaks of 
pornocamvertising.

- Rob.



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