[OSM-talk] Fund Raising Ideas

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 02:56:18PM +0200, Dan Karran wrote:
> On 7/16/06, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
> 
> >Not unless every copyright hohlder who has submitted data that is being
> >used to create the map agrees to have the attribution be to OSM rather
> >than themselves.
> 
> As you guys have just pointed out, perhaps these projects (or any
> other reuse of the data) aren't going to be possible without us all
> coming to an agreement on the licensing beforehand.
> 
> The licence does state "Attribution. You must attribute the work in
> the manner specified by the author or licensor." The licensor in this
> case being OSM. 

The licensor isn't OSM. The licensor is the person who created the data,
and releases it under a CC-BY-SA license. There is no assignment of
copyright to OSM, so it can not be the licensor, as I understand it.

> (1) contributors would probably need to agree with this beforehand,
> but for the weekend mapping projects the assumption is that an area
> would be mapped by an individual, so this wouldn't be too difficult to
> arrange

Right. Assuming the contributor agrees to it, no problem at all.

This is a relatively simple problem when you're working on the scale of
1-2-3 users, but becomes more difficult in, for example, downtown
london, where you're dealing with hundreds. 

*shrug* Just mentioning -- I don't have any vested interest in ensuring
that the licensing requirements are met, but I can see that some other
organization might.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer