[OSM-talk] Attribution guideline update

[Christoph Hormann]

I agree that talking about specific forms of attribution is pointless 
here.  Each corporate OSM data user has a huge department of people who 
every day do no other thing than thinking about new and creative ways 
to pry for their users' attention and use it in the company's interest.  
They do not need the OSMF's help with that (or if they do they have a 
more serious problem).

What you don't seem to understand is that there is nothing in the ODbL 
that allows the conclusion that for OSM data use on certain devices 
there is a *lesser* requirement for making the user aware of the use of 
OSM data than on others (based on physical size or other factors).

So the recommendation for small devices can and should only be that if a 
data user uses OSM data under conditions where the usual attribution is 
technically not possible or economically not desirable they have to 
choose a different form that has *an equal or larger likeliness of 
making the user aware of the OSM data use*.

If you want to give specific examples for how to do this then you should 
use examples that clearly meet this requirements.  A hidden attribution 
evidently does not.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/