On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Up to now there has not been any official guidance on how to comply with > the > > attribution clause of our CC-BY-SA license. This means that people > either > > try to do something that they hope is acceptable or they do nothing. > Some > > of OSM's own outputs fall into the latter category (for example, the API > and > > the planet dump) which sets a bad example for others. > > > > At the very least we should be providing advice and guidance on how > users of > > the data can comply with the attribution requirement when they publish > OSM > > data. > > > > I'd like to propose that we make the following statement: > > > > "If you publish OpenStreetMap data you can satisfy the attribution > > requirement of the license by linking to or referencing > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Attribution"; > > > > Discuss. > > I understand the logic of using that URL in terms of wanting to > comply with attribution requirements for any data we import (though > personally I don't think it should be in the wiki for fairly obvious > reasons) but in terms of making the attribution advertise our project > that is not a good URL to use. > We need a place for contributors to be able to add their preferred/required form of attribution text. A page wiki makes that easy to maintain as anyone who wants their own specific form of attribution can add their details there. > > I would certainly prefer that people using our data provide a link > to www.openstreetmap.org or the top level wiki index page as that > would do a better job of advertising our project to people that follow > the attribution link, which is surely the whole point of us wanting > attribution. > The purpose of this is not advertisement of the OSM project. It is so that users can comply with the terms of our license - users of our data have an obligation to provide attribution. I would prefer a url like attribution.openstreetmap.org or www.openstreetmap.org/attribution but it should still, IMHO, point to the same wiki page. > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.compton.nu/ > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk >
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