[OSM-talk] #AttributionIsNotOptional experiment on OSM France tile servers

[Yves]

If the terms of use is sufficiently clear, and a couple of warnings have been issued beforehand, then what can possibly happen? 
This is a rhetorical question. 
Yves 

Le 11 mars 2020 16:10:55 GMT+01:00, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> a écrit :
>
>Am 11.03.2020 um 15:48 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via talk:
>> Mar 11, 2020, 15:37 by simon at poole.ch:
>>
>>     As I wrote (conveniently ignored in the noise of the vigilante
>>     rampage): "
>>
>> I guess that people were irritated by describing gentle reminder
>about
>> license requirements
>> using pejorative terms ("deface") where their applicability was
>dubious.
>Sorry, but that is exactly the appropriate term, and anything that will
>inevitably get you on the wrong end of being sued if you do it often
>enough, is not a "gentle reminder".
>>
>>     The safe, I admit also the less fun, option, is to simply block
>>     access after giving any required notice."
>>
>> And note that in case of OSMF-served tiles no notice is required.
>>
>I'm not sure why you feel it necessary to tell me about terms that I'm
>completely aware off (and in some cases that I actually co-wrote), the
>subject matter in this thread is not -just- about the OSMF operated
>servers, but of those of OSM-FR and others.
>
>Simon
>
>> See https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/
>>
>> "Clearly display license attribution." is in explicit requirements,
>> and given overloaded servers
>>
>> "should any users or patterns of usage nevertheless cause problems to
>> the service, access may still be blocked without prior notice."
>>
>> applies anyway.
>>
>> "access may be withdrawn at any point" is later repeated.
>>
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