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Add license blurb at the top of the sources list #161

Closed stepps00 closed 4 years ago

stepps00 commented 4 years ago

Per https://github.com/whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data/issues/1795

At the top of the sources list, include a licensing snippet like:

Crediting Who's On First is recommended and linking back to the License is required. For example:

> Data from Who's On First. [License](https://whosonfirst.org/docs/sources/list/).

The Who's On First dataset is both original work and a modification of existing open data. Some of those open data projects do require attribution. We have listed all sources in the full [license file](https://whosonfirst.org/docs/sources/list/).
stepps00 commented 4 years ago

Additionally, we should update the existing LICENSE.md file in this repo, with a summary of each source. For each source, something like:

Austria Open Data: source data, source license, [more info]()