Andy Allan wrote: > There's no "where possible" regarding the license
What this section of the Legal FAQ actually says (which I think is an admirable model of clarity, but then I did write it :p ) is that hyperlinks should be provided where hyperlinks are possible. They are not possible in printed works, unless you have managed to create some magic kind of touchy clicky paper where you can press some words and a website magically appears. If you've done that then frankly I wonder why you're spending your days playing with TIGER data. ;) If they are not possible, then it says you should provide the URI. The FAQ departs slightly from the CC licence in that it recommends you point people to www.creativecommons.org rather than http://www.creativecommons.org/whateverthefuckingobscureurlisforthelicence/cc/by/sa/up/yer/bum/2.0 . But if we're at the stage of complying with the exact wording of the licence, then hey, let's not forget that strictly you have to attribute every contributor to OSM the instant you touch the data. The letter of CC-BY-SA does not permit any opt-out for credit to the Original Author, i.e. the mapper. If I may borrow your wording, "reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing" [sic] does not include "where possible". So, y'know, I look forward to every CloudMade tile incorporating a 5,000-strong list of contributors, which swells to 5,001 the next time some retard decides to globally change of shop=groceries to shop= greengrocers or whatever it was. Given that www.whitehouse.gov/change still doesn't have any pointer to CC, at all, then I suspect we're some way off that. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/osm-copyright-violation--tp25938836p26010906.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk