[Osmf-talk] OSM fair use examples

[Jaak Laineste]

These are good examples of placement, but what about minimum content of the
copyright text?

I'm preparing update for our mobile mapping tool. Mobiles have often 240x320
pixel screen. Currently I plan to use 20x20-pixel OSM logo there. We have
used "OpenStreetMap" text (http://www.nutiteq.com/mobile-map-samples), but
it was too large and zoom buttons or other elements covered it. Would just
the logo be sufficient, or should it have cc, (c) or other amendments ?

About individual contributors: I can imagine a web service which returns
Display Names of all the contributors of certain area, what about this? Step
further: a web service which generates transparent png image for me to be
used as proper attribution, whatever is the current license/attribution
requirement (input: bounding box and image size)? If the image would be less
than 24x80 pixels then it could be used in mobile too, certainly OpenLayers
could use it. It would be not just for the legal stuff, but also extra
motivation for contributors: "look, there is also my name on the map of my
street!"

Jaak

-----Original Message-----
From: osmf-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:osmf-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Frederik Ramm
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:35 AM
To: Kai Krueger
Cc: osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Osmf-talk] OSM fair use examples

Hi,

Kai Krueger wrote:
> It may still be sensible to have a few visual examples of what is 
> "clearly" acceptable. Those examples should probably contain a few 
> different "styles" to highlight that we indeed do not have one 
> specific way of how OSM needs to be attributed.

I've made a start here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Examples_of_possible_attribution.svg

But I am most certainly no graphic artist so the whole thing should really
be thrown away and re-done better.

With all this we should bear in mind that even if *we* say it is ok to
credit "OpenStreetMap contributors", a mapper could still sue a map user for
breach of license because he is not listed by name. Would we perhaps, by
suggesting clearly that "(c) OpenStreetMap contributors" is sufficient, move
ourselves into the line of fire, and users could sue us because we had them
believe that they would not be sued...?

Bye
Frederik

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