On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I would certainly prefer that people using our data provide a link > >> to www.openstreetmap.org or the top level wiki index page as that > >> would do a better job of advertising our project to people that follow > >> the attribution link, which is surely the whole point of us wanting > >> attribution. > > > > The purpose of this is not advertisement of the OSM project. It is so > that > > users can comply with the terms of our license - users of our data have > an > > obligation to provide attribution. > > The point is that CC-BY-SA allows us to specify a URL that people > must quote as attribution when using our work. > > You are trying to use that requirement as a way to ensure that people > link to a page that passes on any nested attribution requirements that > come from data we import. > It's not a requirement, its an option. It is however a requirement that *all* publishers of OSM data satisfy any attribution requirements imposed by contributors. At the moment there is no easy way for them to do this and without such a way, it is not easy for potential data contributors to believe that we can satisfy their attribution requirements. > I would prefer to use that requirement as a way to advertise our > project to people that get works derived from our data. > > Trying to achieve both aims is obviously the ultimate goal, but it > is not an easy thing to do. > Agreed, it is not easy to achieve either of these goals. It is harder if we try to make it more complicated than need be. This proposal is about one thing only - attribution. Lets not confuse it with other requirements about publicity etc. which will just make it more complicated and much harder. > > As Richard says however, it's a bit silly to do anything now when the > license may be changing anyway. > In what way will the new license affect our attribution obligations? Attribution is the only part of the current license that is not at issue. > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.compton.nu/ > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk >
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