[OSM-talk] Will OSM tiles be CC-0 soon?

[Robert Scott]

On Wednesday 26 October 2011, Erik Johansson wrote:
> Hi I want to talk about the tiles, since they have always been a very
> important part of these project, ever since we got
> white-lines-on-landsat[1].
> 
> When we are ODBL pure, the tiles produced by OSMF servers can have any
> license with attribution. Will they continue to be CC-by-SA or do
> people think that the tiles license should change too?

Keeping them as CC-BY-SA might give people another incentive to run their own tile server, as they would be able to get rid of the attribution text in the corner of their app. (am I right about this?)

If they're using our server capacity, the least we can ask is for attribution etc.


robert.