[OSM-talk] Oxford University use without attribution

Jonas Svensson jonass at lysator.liu.se
Mon Oct 22 12:35:26 BST 2007


On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, 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

It says right under the map: "Mapping data provided by
OpenStreetMap under an open license." with links to OSM main page and to
license page. So attribution
should not be a problem?

/Jonas





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