Joe Richards wrote: > It appears to be hanging on a minor technicality, ie attribution of the > datasource. Since this is potentially a huge advance for New Zealand > mapping, what is exactly the sticking point, ie do LINZ really require a > notification on the map while being browsed? Or is just having the > attribution on a message somewhere (e.g. a wiki page, or even a link to that > page as an attribute on each node/way etc)? The distinction is fairly > important here, since attributions are common elsewhere too. For example > there is a Berkley University attribution tucked away in all copies of > Windows to acknowledg the use of the TCP/IP stack.
The big problem with all these data sets that require attribution is not adding the attribution (though that may be an issue if it needs to be recorded on each object we derive from it) but making sure that nobody deletes that attribution in the future. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
