----- Original Message ---- > From: Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> > To: Licensing and other legal discussions. <legal-t...@openstreetmap.org> > Sent: Tuesday, 20 October, 2009 13:13:31 > Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proper attribution > > Hi, > > Tom Hughes wrote: > > The main issue of debate surrounds exactly what forms of attribution > > are/are not valid. > > And this is not made easier by the fact that what is valid and what not > is not the community's decision but (within the confines of the license > text) that of the individual contributor. > > Assuming for a moment that my contributions to OSM are copyrightable and > the CC-BY-SA license is valid, then if I license my data CC-BY-SA I have > the right to request anyone using my data, or building or using derived > versions thereof, to provide attribution in the form I believe is > required, and I can drag them to court if they don't.
So it seems I have stumbled back on to the license debate. > > So even if the attribution you provide looks ok to the majority of the > community, it only needs "one especially vociferous individual" who has > contributed to the data you are using to cause you trouble. I guess this will only be resolved / improved by ODbL. Until that time, i guess the more attribution the better and following the guidelines on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ will suffice. > > Bye > Frederik > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-t...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
