[OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

[Jeff Meyer]

Alex - for the recent King County and City of Seattle disclaimers, I
explicitly pointed them to the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**
wiki/Contributors <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors>, and
asked if putting the disclaimers on that page would suffice. They said yes.
I don't know if that means the wiki page is the right or best solution,
just that it indisputably worked for 2 sources.

My impression is that there's also a mismatch between import sources who
*should* be listed (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Import) and
those who actually are. I'd be glad to compare and update the
attributions... assuming no one else is dying to do it! ; )

- Jeff

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 15.01.2013 23:15, Alex Barth wrote:
>
>> I'd like to understand better, have these parties been promised the
>> /copyright location for credits? How do they wind up on there vs. on
>> the wiki? Is there any leeway to merge them into (a better)
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/Contributors<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors>and move them a click
>> away from the page on OSM that's linked from maps?
>>
>
> It's hard to say what is, or has been, promised. But we (=we the project,
> not we the OSMF) occasionally encounter potential data providers who have
> some sort of license that says "you must provide attribution", without
> clearly saying where and how. Then we often explain OSM to them, saying
> "you can't get attribution on the map, but your attribution will be in the
> object history and if you want we can put you on
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/**copyright<http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright>which we ask people to link to when they use our data", and we ask them
> "would that fulfil your demand for attribution?" and if they say yes we can
> use their data.
>
> You'd have to check with LWG but I doubt that any of those listed on that
> page have been promised to be exactly one click away from the map; they
> probably have been promised to be listed "on this page". Still it could be
> perceived as bad style if we move them to a less prominent place.
>
> I don't think that a Wiki page will do because the words on the copyright
> page are probably meant to be written exactly as they are there, and not
> subject to Wiki editing, for legal reasons. But that would really be
> something to discuss with the LWG.
>
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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