On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 22:35, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote:
> "We require that you use the credit “© OpenStreetMap contributors”... > For a browsable electronic map, the credit should appear in the corner > of the map." 28 characters. There are many cases, such as mobile phones, where - depending on user settings - that's either going to be too small to be readable, or so big it obscures what people need to see. > Full mea culpa: the /copyright page says "should" rather than "must" > purely because I wrote the page, I'm British and I, we, talk like that RFC 2119 is (or would have been) your friend: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt > So we need to decide what our response is to web/in-app maps that do not > provide attribution in the manner requested by osm.org/copyright. This > response might be: > e) or many other options... fill in your suggestion here :) f) We move to PD / CC0 licensing. <G,D&R> > There has been a lot of chatter over recent years about this issue but > the issue has never really broken through. Perhaps because the community (that is, the mapping community, not the mailing list community) just doesn't care that much - which suggests your options a or b would apply? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
