Richard Fairhurst <richard <at> systemed.net> writes: >ODbL 4.3 allows you to distribute Produced Works under any licence as >long as you provide attribution. > >"[...] if you Publicly Use a Produced Work, You must include a notice >associated with the Produced Work reasonably calculated to make any >Person that uses, views, accesses, interacts with, or is otherwise >exposed to the Produced Work aware that Content was obtained from the >Database, Derivative Database, or the Database as part of a >Collective Database, and that it is available under this License"
So you must provide attribution, but you don't have to enforce that downstream users of the Produced Work have to keep the attribution. (That seems sensible enough to me personally.) Anyway, to get back to the original point, you mentioned some cases where the current licence is being infringed by various small businesses (not big map data vendors) who are using OSM tiles without attribution. But under ODbL this use would simply be permitted - they could, for example, download rendered map tiles from somebody else and then use them as they wished. Or is it your understanding that the attribution requirement under ODbL really is 'viral' and everybody who distributes a Produced Work, no matter how far down the chain, needs to attribute. (If so, that takes care of one of the concerns that 80n had with the new licence, that it doesn't guarantee contributors will be credited.) -- Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
