On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > NopMap wrote: > >> I tried Locus on my phone and traced the accesses in the server log. I >> positively is the culprit. >> >> Needless to say that the program contains no proper attribution and no >> license hint whatsoever. :-( >> > > From reading their forums, I get the impression that they had initially > hard-coded a number of tile providers, and then dropped these in favour of a > "user configurable" tile URL in order to avoid trouble with Google et al. > > Leaving morality aside for a moment, I wonder what the attribution > requirement actually is in that situation. Say you make an Android app that > has no built-in tile sources but if you enter an URL in some text box it > will try to load tiles from there. > > Does CC-BY-SA require that the application programmer somehow cleverly > finds out that the user has entered the OSM tile server, that this tile > server serves CC-BY-SA tiles, and that the attribution is so-and-so? > Probably not, which means that as long as you don't explicitly support OSM > you don't need attribution, right? It doesn't matter how you design it technically. Your app is displaying CC-BY-SA content that has an attribution requirement. if the app doesn't support the attribution then I would say it's violating the license. Anyway, legal-talk is that way --> ;-)
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