[OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

Chris Hill osm at raggedred.net
Wed Jan 16 23:01:28 GMT 2013


On 16/01/13 22:33, Christian Quest wrote:
> The current legal requirement is only about a text because no official 
> icon was existing.
>
> If one is chosen, what prevents us to upgrade the requirements to 
> leave the choice between the "© OpenStreetMap contributors" or the new 
> chosen icon ?
>
>
To me the copyright symbol, ©, is understood worldwide to have a 
specific meaning, replacing it with a new made-up symbol loses the 
meaning completely. I do like the idea of a small, clickable icon to 
identify OSM, but I don't see how that replaces the well understood © 
symbol and attribution statement. I would be happy to reduce 
'Openstreetmap' to 'OSM' for brevity.

MapQuest have a small icon that they request people embed into any site 
using their Open map tiles (based on OSM data). I believe they follow 
its use to help them build stats or some such. It looks fine, but I add 
"© Openstreetmap contributors" too, as per the licence we spent so long 
struggling to implement.

-- 
Cheers, Chris
user: chillly




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