I've send a couple of those letters and always tried to be friendly along the lines of "I'm a contributor, proud that you use our work, you forgot attribution, maybe next release/publication include it, more info on http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright";
regards m On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Pieter-Jan Pauwels < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ruben, > > Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree with your email, only your sentence > about the attribution requirement being deliberately neglected seems way > off. I have a non-print marketing background and I can tell you nobody > knows the anything about licenses in re-using materials (except > contributors and legal counselors). I’ve been evangelising open licenses > for over 2 years now and I still get the same reaction from high level > marketeers to uni students: “What do you mean we can use Images on Google > Images? Then why would they make them available in the first place?” And > that’s just for images, let alone, data or virtual maps. > > So yes contact them, but don’t start with going in offensive mode by > tapping them on the fingers. Awareness and open discussions bring in more > souls to the (l)(r)ight side. > Maybe we should consider more info on http://osm.be/nl/usage about how > the license applies when graphically copying or screenshotting the map, > because now it’s very data focused, no? > > Don’t let this stop you from sharing such examples though. The more we > know how maps are reused and misused, the better we can handle it in the > future. > > Kind regards, > Pieter-Jan Pauwels > Community Coordinator > Open Knowledge Belgium > m: +32 476 66 27 77 a: Sint-Salvatorstraat 18/101, 9000 Gent > s: www.openknowledge.be e: [email protected] > > > > On 03 Aug 2016, at 15:30, Ruben Maes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a feeling that they were actually aware of the attribution > requirement, but deliberately didn't do it because it's difficult for us to > act on. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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