On 17.04.20 15:33, Mario Frasca wrote: > On 17/04/2020 04:20, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> What about removing [the trailing "contributors" from the © >> attribution], so that the required credit becomes "© OpenStreetMap" >> (it could also be © OpenStreetMapFoundation, but maybe "© >> OpenStreetMap" would be sufficient, given that OpenStreetMap is a >> brand owned by the OpenStreetMapFoundation)? > > I find the explanatory text in parentheses confusing.
Agreed, the text in parentheses is problematic. From a moral perspective, explicitly crediting the foundation would very much feel like an unjust appropriation of the mappers' work, regardless of the legal technicality that the OSMF is publishing the database. > I'm fine with associating OSM with its contributors, so if you say that > "© OpenStreetMap" is the same as "© OpenStreetMap contributors", I'm fine. +1. To me, the foundation is not OpenStreetMap. It's an entity that exists to *support* OpenStreetMap. (It's good that the OSMF makes this mental distinction visible by using separate domain, osmfoundation.org.) When I think of OpenStreetMap, I think of the many people who help build our map, not a formal incorporated entity. I hope that other mappers also see themselves as part of OpenStreetMap. So as I said before, I like the core of the suggestion – but it could have been presented better by leaving the foundation bit out of it. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
