[OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Thu Feb 3 20:02:24 GMT 2011


>>>>   The
>>>> license doesn't even mention "data", and attribution is not enough.
>>>
>>> OSM applies the license to data - the license attribution it requests
>>> specifically mentions "Map data".
>>
>> Again, who wrote the license attribution request?  Not me.  In fact,
>> I'm not even sure what license attribution request you're talking
>> about.  If you mean the one in the slippy map, I consider that to be
>> incorrect.  The entire work must be CC-BY-SA, not just the data.
>>
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright - if you think it's incorrect, you
> should probably take that up with the OSMF, which is the publisher of
> www.openstreetmap.org (so one can assume that the website represents the
> OSMF's view).

OSMF is entitled to any view it wants.  But OSMF does not own the OSM database.



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