[OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

Peteris Krisjanis pecisk at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 21:52:23 BST 2010


2010/8/19 Pierre-Alain Dorange <pdorange at mac.com>:
> Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It is not only about NearMap, we have tens of goverment sources which
>> requires attribution.
>
> Yes but not really sure of the kinf of attribution.
> For example here in France, the fiscal administration allow us (OSM
> contributors) to use the "cadastre" (1) (map of all French parcels) to
> help mapping the country. The only conditions where to not use the data
> as a whole package (but aggregate with our own data, ie adding building
> usage name..., drawing rivers and roads...) and to note the source of
> the data.
> Lot of french user use the JOSM plug-in "cadastre" (2) to map their town
> using the provided map as a background. The plug-in add "source=cadastre
> 2010..." and its fine.
> When the final user see the map it only saw the global copyright (© OSM
> contributors...") the real source of some of the data are still
> "cadastre" and are tagged as "source" in the database.
>
> I don't see incompatibility here, or do i miss something ?
> Do OSM have to put the name of all the attribution for the maps
> displayed ?
> Do the new licence/CT require that we do not use the "source" tag
> anymore ?
>

Anyone can remove source tag and relicense data to say BSD license -
if community votes so.

Cheers and have nice copyright violation day,
Peter.



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