On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > > "Thank you for making your xyz data available. We are > > incorporating it into a worldwide free open mapping project http:// > > www.openstreetmap.org, the purposes of which is described in more > > detail at http://wiki (!!!!).openstreetmap.org. In order to give > > maximum permanent (!!!!) attribution as per your license terms, [...] > > Emphasis added by me ;-) > I think the benefits of making it easy for contributors to add their desired attribution text outweighs the burden of a static page. The wiki page is only non-permanent if it is edited maliciously and we have the history to deal with that case. I like the idea of a redirect from a non-wiki page as this prevents a proliferation of unofficial attribution variants appearing in the wiki. I can't imagine a reason why someone would want to do such a thing, but I can imagine that someone would find a good/bad reason to try. > > Wanting to say: Maybe this would be the one place where we should set > up and old-fashioned static website OR write-protect the page. > > Then again, if the next paragraph in the letter were "If you are > unhappy with the attribution as given on that page, please hit the > 'Edit' button and change it to suit your needs" would be tres cool > indeed ;-) > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00.09' E008°23.33' > > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk >
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