On 9/19/09, Peter Miller <peter.mil...@itoworld.com> wrote: > > On 19 Sep 2009, at 04:38, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 23:19 -0500, >> tele...@hushmail.com wrote: >> >>> My question is what type of attribution is appropriate? I have no >>> problem informing my end-users where I get the data. More than >>> happy to do that. However, do I need to attribute while the >>> application is used on-air? Screen real estate is precious on a TV >>> screen. Plus, some clients are un-easy about attribution during the >>> broadcast. Attributing during the credits roll at the end of the >>> broadcast would be doable I suppose. Anyway, I want to do what is >>> right here. So, do I simply attribute in the app and let my TV >>> users know I'm using OpenStreetMap data OR do I need to attribute >>> on-air? I could easily add an OpenStreetMap attribution in the >>> splash screen and about box. >> >> I've noticed almost all the local broadcasters use Google Earth for >> this, and display a small, translucent Google logo in the corner of >> the >> map view. I imagine a little "osm.org" in the corner similar to >> Google's attribution would work for that format. > > That seems to be a good idea. We have a trade-marked logo - possibly > that would be useful. I know it isn't a URL but might be more > identifiable and 'reasonable' for the medium. Mention on the website > associated with a program is another option that has been proposed. > > We do have this situation described as a 'use case' for the new > license and the recommendation against the use case is to create a > community guideline for it - possibly we have just done so! > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_Licence/Use_Cases > > I certainly don't see anyone who makes and effort and does something > reasonable in the circumstances getting criticised.
i agree - if the ODbL is accepted as the new license, that could clear up a lot of the worries about what the correct attribution is. cheers, matt _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
