Robert Whittaker (OSM) [mailto:robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com] wrote: > Sent: 09 May 2012 09:08 > To: Licensing and other legal discussions. > Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Attributing Sources used in OSM > > I've just been given permission to use some UK Local Government data > relating to Public Footpaths and other Rights of Way in OpenStreetMap, > under the terms of the Open Government License (OGL) [1]. In return the > County Council is asking for a standard attribution based on the example > given in the license. So far, so good. > > Assuming that local mappers agree if and how we make use of the data > (ongoing discussion on the talk-gb lists), can I check that the right place to put > this attribution would be in the wiki at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors ? > > Secondly, if that's the case, then surely there needs to be an obvious way to > reach that page from the main OSM page. From > http://www.openstreetmap.org/ , I can easily get to > http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright by following the "Copyright & > License" link in the left-hand bar. But, unless I'm missing something, the trail > then runs cold. That page contains a few attribution statements / > acknowledgements for major data providers, but I'd have thought it should > also link to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors for further > detail and additional statements. Should a link along the lines or "For further > details about these and other sources used to compile the map, please see > ..." be added just below the bulleted list of countries near the bottom of > http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright ? >
It would seem that the "Our contributors" section of the http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright should either contain the contents of the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors page of take visitors directly to it. Maintaining an ever changing main page is clearly not sustainable. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
