[OSM-talk] Oxford University use without attribution
Dan Karran
dan at karran.net
Mon Oct 22 12:33:30 BST 2007
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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