[OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

Michael Collinson mike at ayeltd.biz
Fri Jun 24 10:31:43 BST 2011


On 24/06/2011 10:21, John Smith wrote:
> On 24 June 2011 18:06, Michael Collinson<mike at ayeltd.biz>  wrote:
>    
>> "4. At Your or the copyright owner’s option, OSMF agrees to attribute You or
>> the copyright owner. A mechanism will be provided, currently a web page
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution."
>>
>> Hope that helps. I am personally not going to put my name there, I have
>> always felt that my contributions are more important then my name.
>>      
> Is that page even linked to from the map itself?
>
>    
We have almost completed work so that the page link goes out with each 
and every extraction of geodata ever made (planet dump, API, ...) which 
is the important thing. Good point though, and I have requested 
appropriate changes to the "Copyright and License" page.

Mike



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