[talk-au] Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

[Simon Poole]

Just to clarify, the OSMF doesn't just requires the waiver because it is 
being difficult.

CC BY has fundamental issues that are widely ignored, the blog post is 
simply the diplomatic summary that we hammered out together with CC (it 
says so much in the text).

Simon

Am 01.12.2021 um 07:54 schrieb Brendan Barnes:
> Hey John,
>
> The Legal Eagles of the OSMF Licence Working Group continue to ask for 
> explicit permission (ie waiver) for CC BY 4.0. The rationale is at 
> https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/
>
> You can reach them via their contact details at 
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licensing_Working_Group for any 
> clarifications, but it appears they have already assessed the wording 
> in CC BY 4.0.
>
> I know waivers can be difficult to obtain, and government entities may 
> have internal red tape or few resources available to supply one to the 
> OSM community. However it's in everyone's best interest, and once we 
> have a waiver on file for the agencies' datasets, they are good to use 
> indefinitely.
>
> ..Brendan
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:53, John Luan <john.luan.x at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi Guys,
>
>     Had a look at this license
>     https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
>
>     Do we really need a waiver from the data provider? something like
>     this
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/1/17/AADC_CC-BY_Permission_JK_signed.pdf
>
>     My feeling is that as long as we list the data provider on the
>     contributor list, it should be fine.
>
>     Regards,
>     John
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