[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

[John Smith]

On 10 August 2010 18:14, David Ellams <osmlists at dellams.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I'm not the first to say this, but is the problem not (whichever BY-SA
> licence we use) that we are suggesting to people that attributing the
> project is enough (rather than, say, giving the most major contributors
> to the map area individual attribution). I don't know; IANAL.

I've only seen it suggested in the past about how crediting every
single contributor would be pages long, your suggestion is a good
idea, however I'm left wondering if this would make things open to
abuse, how many times would something be mass tagged attribution=Buy
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vandalism...