[OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

[Tom Hughes]

On 25/07/11 12:20, Ed Avis wrote:
> Richard Fairhurst<richard at ...>  writes:
>
>> I see plenty of bad guys taking advantage of OSM. I've catalogued elsewhere
>> how OSM is being used without attribution, without share-alike, all the
>> time. I only have to walk down to our village station to see an example of
>> an OSM map being used improperly.
>
> That sucks, but is it really the case that changing the licence would fix it?
> I thought most such cases were resolved by contracting the other party.

In this particular case the other party (being well known in OSM 
circles) is well aware of the issue and is dealing with it.

> Is it really true that someone has refused to do the right thing because they
> don't think the CC-BY-SA licence is enforceable?  If so are details available?

As we understand things it was an error rather than a deliberate action 
so the license wasn't even considered. Basically the people given the 
posters were provided a toolkit that allowed them to use OS or OSM data 
depending on what was best for a given station and they made a mistake 
and attached the wrong copyright statement to the OSM produced ones.

Tom

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