[OSM-talk] Let's talk Attribution

[Mario Frasca]

On 28/04/2020 15:01, Kathleen Lu wrote:
> I know no major open source license that requires attribution *in the 
> UI that the user sees without clicking on anything*. 

oh, but thinking of code I don't particularly care about the UI.

I care about the code, and if I release some code as GPL, you as a user 
have the right to receive the code, and you as a further developer have 
the right to do whatever you want with the code, but NOT to change the 
license, nor to remove me from the copyright holders.

so again you as a user looking into the code are expected to find my 
name (and that of all previous and subsequent authors).

the header of the code, that's the place where the attribution is expected.

roughly equivalent to some corner in the displayed map, that's what the 
license says, right?

the point which surprises me (and IIUC Skyler), is that you state 
something in the license, then you seem not to particularly care if it's 
respected, or not.

MF