[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

[John Smith]

On 16 April 2011 19:49, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> No I said 'free access to this sort of data'. But I don't see that having
> the courtesy to recognise where data can from should be any sort of a
> problem. 'Requiring it' just acknowledges that some people do not extend
> that common courtesy. I find no restrictions on what I need to do with the
> data.

Just because attribution is not restriction for you, doesn't mean
others feel the same way, OS (along with many other data producers)
require it, yet the PD proponents don't want any such strings.