[OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Steve Coast <steve at ...> writes:


> But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re speaking here about 
> the simple ask, that if you use OSM you please say clearly on the map 
> that it is OSM. You’re getting a great dataset, for free, under an open 
> license, that millions of people are contributing to. We’re not asking 
> for $100,000 license fees, we’re just asking that you say who we are.
> It’s the ultimate human need; I was here. I did this.

OSM is such a strong project that there should be no need to exaggarate. We
have 1.6 million registered users [1] and of those a bit more than 300000
has made the last edit into the database [2]. The number of active members
is  growing steadily and linearly [3]. And by looking at the list of Top
users editing over the past in [1], imports has nowadays a huge importance
for the project - I was here, sitting in my own armchair. I did this import.

I agree with the attribution to OSM, we have written rules and all players
should follow them. When looking the attribution from opposite side,
according to our contributor terms all imported data come OSM data as soon
as it is stored into the database and we have no need to mention the origin
of data. However, we voluntarily do that at least to some extent, which is
fair [4] [5] [6].

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html
[2] http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/
[3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats
[4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
[5] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors
[6] http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

-Jukka Rahkonen-