I think there was a mailing list thread on the wolframalpha attribution about a month ago, although it might have only been a long IRC conversation. A key thing was that the sources link didn't work in 1 or 2 key browsers (must have been IE, FF, Chrome, or Safari). Other than that problem they technically meet the attribution requirement (I believe) but it is the view of a lot of us (and the reason I like attribution) is that when they see the cool map they also see the cool name rather than having to look for it.
On share alike, well I am free to save the map images of WolframAlpha and put them on my own site/product (crediting OSM with CC-BY-SA) if I like the style/cropping/location. I can't take the description of the place of WA, because they didn't use/need OSM to write it. On 16 June 2010 20:45, Tim McNamara <paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote: > On 17 June 2010 03:47, Frank Sautter <openstreet...@sautter.com> wrote: > >> WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data >> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Berlin >> >> Is the license attribution they are using OK? >> >> > I think it depends on whether you can seperate the map that Wolfram|Alpha > have created from the rest of their content. If the map is seen > as separate from the rest of the page, then I think it's probably fine. > However, I think that it's a stretch to say that the single map component is > seperate from the rest of the result. The whole thing creates a single > creative work. Therefore, I think that every result that uses an OSM map > should be licenced under CC-BY-SA or similar: > > *"Share Alike* — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may > distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this > one" [1] > > However, from the sounds of this discussion, the OSM community seems to > really be caring about the attribution requirement. If so, I think the group > should reduce its licencing requirements to CC-BY. This would reflect the > intention of what people are after in practice. > > -Tim > > > [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Gregory o...@livingwithdragons.com http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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