Frederik Ramm wrote: > And it is ok for them that whatever clever technical attribution > scheme you devise is immediately switched off when OSM maps are > viewed through something else than osm.org (e.g. informationfreeway, > cyclemap, ...) whom you cannot force to use your technical solution?
Well, that's the ODBL enforceability-of-contracts discussion all over again. ;) Andy's right in that actually displaying information on the map rendering is a non-starter. However, it is reasonable, I think, for _large_ attribution-required datasets to be imported if the copyright holders are happy for attribution to be provided otherwise (probably through a link: our existing licence requires attribution anyway, so hyperlinking it isn't much effort). ODBL makes a lot of sense in this context. For these datasets, we could store attribution and bbox in a special attribution table, which would be included in the planet and therefore could be made viewable in other viewers - or they could simply link back to the corresponding view on osm.org. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk