2010/8/19 Pierre-Alain Dorange <pdora...@mac.com>: > Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It is not only about NearMap, we have tens of goverment sources which >> requires attribution. > > Yes but not really sure of the kinf of attribution. > For example here in France, the fiscal administration allow us (OSM > contributors) to use the "cadastre" (1) (map of all French parcels) to > help mapping the country. The only conditions where to not use the data > as a whole package (but aggregate with our own data, ie adding building > usage name..., drawing rivers and roads...) and to note the source of > the data. > Lot of french user use the JOSM plug-in "cadastre" (2) to map their town > using the provided map as a background. The plug-in add "source=cadastre > 2010..." and its fine. > When the final user see the map it only saw the global copyright (© OSM > contributors...") the real source of some of the data are still > "cadastre" and are tagged as "source" in the database. > > I don't see incompatibility here, or do i miss something ? > Do OSM have to put the name of all the attribution for the maps > displayed ? > Do the new licence/CT require that we do not use the "source" tag > anymore ? >
Anyone can remove source tag and relicense data to say BSD license - if community votes so. Cheers and have nice copyright violation day, Peter. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk