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OpenStreetMap contributions from the data team at Mapbox
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapbox#Mapbox_Data_Team
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What is the license of materials in this repository? #417

Closed matkoniecz closed 2 years ago

matkoniecz commented 2 years ago

Is it intentionally fully copyrighted?

In such case - is it accepting outside contributions at all, or only Mapbox employees are allowed to submit pull requests to mapping guides?

1ec5 commented 2 years ago

Mapbox has dedicated the content of these mapping guides to the public domain under a CC0 public domain dedication. If you click the ℹ️ button at the top of the homepage, a panel slides out with an introduction that mentions this dedication, linking to this blog post with more details:

cc0

Admittedly it isn’t the most obvious place for this information. The guides are published from the publisher-production branch of this repository. I’m seeking clarification on whether the CC0 dedication also applies to the source code of this repository, e.g., the stylesheets and build scripts.

matkoniecz commented 2 years ago

Right, thanks for pointing this out! Such hidden buttons-not-looking-like-buttons are a bit hard to notice.

1ec5 commented 2 years ago

I’m seeking clarification on whether the CC0 dedication also applies to the source code of this repository, e.g., the stylesheets and build scripts.

mapbox/mapping@4cef956c4b45c01e2143dfa85b98b9d25c6a4cc7 clarifies that the source code of this branch is also in the public domain.

matkoniecz commented 2 years ago

@1ec5 What about adding LICENSE/LICENCE/COPYING file in root of repo? It is displayed by Github and easy to find and standard way to show license.

See say https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete

See #418 - alternative is to have full CC0 license code in COPYING