Post #1724006

2026-03-31 14:46 UTC

@memoria @opensourceopenmind @manankanchu would you please elaborate? Many free licenses require attribution, in the same way as OM requires when using its map data files. Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap.org, even FDroid icon requires attribution. Allowing to remove attribution is more freedom than disallowing it.

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@memoria@wetdry.world 2026-03-31 20:49

@organicmaps rebranding is seperate from attribution. attribution is important, but attribution is not the issue here. It's fair and reasonable to require attribution, but rebranding is an expected result of forks and downstream projects free licenses permit the licenser to restrict the use of their name and logo as long as it doesn't practically limit the four freedoms, however the inverse, requiring derivitives to include your branding is a violation of the freedom to modify or redistribute modified copies. a core tenant of the freedom to redistribute, with or without modification, is the right to do so without permission. requiring the user to seek your conditional permission to perform a modification is a violation of freedom 3, making it not free @opensourceopenmind @manankanchu

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