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

[80n]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Henk Hoff <toffehoff at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:25 PM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> n 24 June 2011 19:31, Michael Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>
>> fosm.org has a link, indirectly, to that page and all the appropriate
>> copyright notices in it's API.  Can anyone see any problems with how we are
>> doing that?
>>
>>
>
Thanks, Henk this is useful feedback.


> I can see problems with fosm.org having the Attribution-link deeplinken to
> the Attribution page on the openstreetmap wiki. Just to name two:
> 1) It suggests that fosm and osm are one and the same. which they are not.
>

I'd hate to imply that ;)  I'll see if I can put some content on an
intermediate page that clarifies.


> 2) fosm will not / cannot attribute those who only work on fosm.
>

All content outputs from fosm.org attribute fosm, osm and contributors.
Most of the website's html pages do not contain or publish maps or map
content, only the api and diff files contain any content and those are
attributed like this:

<osm version='0.6' generator='FOSM API 0.6' copyright='2011 FOSM
contributors, OpenStreetMap contributors' attribution='
http://www.fosm.org/attribution' license='Creative commons CC-BY-SA 2.0'>

The one exception is currently Potlatch which is embedded and obviously
displays map content.  I guess ideally Potlatch itself should read the data
source headers and display the copyright and attribution notices that are
appropriate.  Perhaps that would make sense once all OSM data sources
provide such information.



> Personally I don't care much about the second issue. That's with fosm and
> it's contributors. If their contributors don't want to be attributed, that's
> up to them.
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