[Osmf-talk] attribution: board letter to facebook

[Kathleen Lu]

But your comparison was to two sources licensed under CC-BY and CC-BY-SA
(which have the same attribution provision), where the attribution was not
adjacent to the material that came from those sources, so that is what my
question was about.

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 2:54 PM Nuno Caldeira <nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I prefer attribution visibly as mentioned here by OSMF
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_and_Legal_FAQ#How_should_I_attribute_you.3F
> clear, visible and in the corner of the map. not behing "i" that 1% will
> click on...if they manage to it hit...which isa bit hard on mobile devices
> TBH.
>
>
>
> Às 22:43 de 08/11/2019, Kathleen Lu escreveu:
>
> Nuno, do you honestly prefer attribution further down the page than behind
> an (i) on the map? I think that the (i) on the map is much more likely to
> inform a user about the *map*.
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 2:33 PM Nuno Caldeira <nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Another interesting thing is that facebook doesn't have a issue for
>> visibly attributing Wikipedia and Freebase. Scroll down at this example
>> page at
>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Madeira-Natural-Park/113857212034096?rf=152605491445324
>>
>> or
>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Peneda-Ger%C3%AAs-National-Park/104009266303334?rf=112523248763549
>>
>> Printscreen of the visible attribution. https://i.ibb.co/8Y5V2dp/aaaa.jpg
>>
>> So the issue is either our license or them and mapbox not knowing about
>> attribution (which i highly doubt since they are corporate members of OSMF
>> and been repetitively been asked to comply). We will probably never know,
>> since they never reply publicly neither does the board.
>>
>>
>> Às 07:18 de 10/10/2019, Rihards escreveu:
>>
>> We all are overjoyed when OSM data is used more and more.
>> And we all are happy when big players like Facebook use OSM data.
>>
>> Sometimes in a rush they might miss properly attributing OSM, and
>> getting to somebody who can fix it is hard (it's a big company after all).
>>
>> Perhaps OSMF members can ask the board for a favour - sending a short,
>> polite letter to Facebook, asking to give mappers a fuzzy feeling and
>> add a proper attribution?
>>
>> Discussing multiple steps (a direct letter first, then a public letter,
>> then one directed to their copyright contacts etc) is likely out of
>> scope for this thread.
>>
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