[OSM-talk] Oxford University use without attribution

[Dan Karran]

Stephen,

On 10/22/07, Stephen Gower <socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li> wrote:
>   Oxford University's new website launched this morning.  Some of us
>   noted that they are using OSM data (in fact, pulling tiles straight
>   off the tile server) without attribution.  Was this cleared in any
>   way, or are they just abusing the free nature of OSM?
>
>   http://www.ox.ac.uk/applications/dynamic/map.rm?postcode=OX2+6UD&location=Wolfson%20College&id=490

It looks like they fixed that up pretty quickly... "Mapping data
provided by OpenStreetMap under an open license."

>   Should we be flattered that the Oxford data is considered good
>   enough to use and let it go, or should we try to get them attribute
>   in some way?  Posted to legal because of the copyright violation,
>   and crossposted to talk because there may be bandwidth implications
>   for tile.openstreetmap.org.

I think it's great that they're using the data  :)

>   In my juvenile manner, I'd be tempted to serve something other than
>   the requested tile if the referrer is www.ox.ac.uk - but perhaps it
>   would be best to be grownup and try to come to a proper
>   arrangement.


Dan

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