Question on licensing

[d3mon187]

First off, thanks for putting together an easy to use package for Kartotherian. I've been trying to wrap my head around the different pieces of building a vector mapping server, and this looks like it will give me a chance to test with Kartotherian instead of strictly Openmaptiles. I see that you have married the two together, and I was wondering if all of the pieces you use from Openmaptiles are free of the CC-BY license they have on most of their stuff now? I'm doing my best to build what I can without the need to squeeze attribution onto every map I serve or host, but it looks like you've run into the same problem with your own map hosting from using the Openmaptiles schema. Have you found any ways around this? I thought from my reading that I saw that Kartotherian uses Mapbox's schema, and it doesn't appear they give attribution to anyone on their maps? Anyways, would love to hear any feedback on this, because the large mix of pieces out there and licensing drama is a bit dizzying! Thanks!

[amatissart]

Licensing issues are always tricky, so don't take my words at face value :)

As far as Qwant Maps are concerned, we are maintaining a fork of OpenMapTiles vector tile schema. Its design license (CC-BY 4.0) indeed requires to credit "OpenMaptiles" on the map. That's why you will find this attribution on https://www.qwant.com/maps, as well as in the source attribution in our custom map style.

I am not sure about how Wikimedia handle these issues with their production deployment of Kartotherian. It seems that they are using their own schema under GPL-2.0.
And according to this page, they only rely on a mapbox style that does not require specific attribution on the map itself.

I hope that helps a little.

[d3mon187]

Thanks! That's exactly the information I was trying to figure out. I think the Mapbox wording tripped me up on their licensing, but I understand now that they just require attribution through a linked website instead of directly on the map. I think I will try to go that way and see what I can figure out.

Btw, love Qwant's styling. Really dig the whole design from maps to site.