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Karliss 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

I don't get why you consider MIT/BSD fine when both of them have "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." but when OSM does the same it somehow becomes "you gotta promote our service".

geokon 14 days ago [–]

A license notice and attribution are not the same though? Furthemore, it's a bit different when it's buried in the meta data somewhere.

The OSM situation seems more akin to GIMP insisting you have to watermark every image with "Made thanks to the GIMP Corporation!"

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