[OSM-talk] Please review "Community attribution advice” wiki page

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Dec 8, 2020, 18:41 by rory at technomancy.org:

> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, at 09:43, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote:
>
>> Can you give an example of something that would follow
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_attribution_advice
>> and still would not fulfill ODBL?
>>
>
> What is and isn't allowed by the ODbL can (I think) only be answered by a court case.
>
While details can be argued and litigated some things are clear.

For example big prominent attribution is certainly fine, while completely
missing attribution and displaying worldwide map is certainly not.

So, we may safely recommend using visible attribution what is
- certainly fulfilling ODBL
- not a burden for someone using OSM data in a good faith
- in our interest 

> These guidelines suffer the same mistake as the old OSMF Legal FAQ¹ of using “should”, rather than “must”.
>
I am not a native speaker, personally I wold be fine with strengthening "should"
to "must".
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