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

[Tobias Knerr]

Robert Scott wrote:
> 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?)

No, ODbL itself requires attribution. It is not legally possible to
publish OSM tiles without attribution using an ODbL-licensed OSM database.

This also means that OSM tiles will certainly *not* be CC-0. They might
become CC-BY, though, and I don't see a reason why we should keep the
share alike requirement for the tiles when we already have a share alike
requirement for the database.

Tobias