[OSM-talk] Oxford University use without attribution

[David Earl]

On 22/10/2007 12:22, Stephen Gower 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
>   
>   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.

Err, there does seem to be attribution. Maybe someone read your message 
and fixed it pronto. It says "Mapping data provided by OpenStreetMap 
under an open license.", with links to the appropriate places giving 
more detail.

This is exactly what we are doing this for isn't it! Be happy.

David