[mkgmap-dev] Attribution of Garmin-maps

Wed Sep 12 14:24:13 BST 2012

Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse.de> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 12, aighes wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> how do you attribute your published maps in a few days?
>>
>> If I got it correct from ODbL-licence it should be something like that (in 
>> case of its a derivative Database):
>
> According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ I will use
> now:
>
> for the license (--license-file)
> "Map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors
> (http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)"
>
> for the copyright (--copyright-message)
> "OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. See: http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright"
> (Garmin will add the (c) at their own in the output).

It seems that this license/copyright information should be in the
.osm/.pbf, and mkgmap should just carry it along.  Of course, combining
terms seems tricky for multiple inputs, but in the simple case making
the mkgmap user set license terms manually seems suboptimal.
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