[Osmf-talk] CC-BY-SA "too strong" ?
Simon Ward
simon at bleah.co.uk
Sat Dec 12 13:07:12 UTC 2009
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:20:42AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> In their contributor terms, and indeed on every edit page, Wikipedia
> makes you agree that a link back to the Wikipedia article is sufficient
> attribution. (Actually it is a bit more complex still, see
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use.)
>
> OSM could do the same, but we'd have to put that in our own contributor
> terms and it would only become valid for people signing up after that,
> or we'd have to send everyone a notice to that effect and say "click
> here to agree that in the future, a link to openstreetmap.org is
> sufficient attribution for you" or so.
That’s very like the proposed process for transitioning to the ODbL :)
So, if we decided to stick with CC-by-sa on the data (I’m not saying we
should), but add on some contributor terms to iron out some of the major
issues with using CC-by-sa, we could.
Simon
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simple system that works.—John Gall
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