Where in B4 Example — Service Metadata does it describe who needs to be attributed?

[nmtoken]

In the example we have

license:
name: CC-BY 4.0 license
url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I see looking at https://spec.openapis.org/oas/latest.html#license-object-example that a fuller response might be:

license:
name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
identifier: CC-BY-4.0
url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

But I can't work out from the example how a user of the service would know who to attribute (i.e. give appropriate credit) as is required by the licence

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

[jerstlouis]

Thanks @nmtoken .

This is probably more an issue for OGC API - Common - Part 1: Core

https://docs.ogc.org/is/19-072/19-072.html#_56682cbf-76dc-4c75-a266-a58186d638aa

But are you referring to the attribution for the API definition, or for the dataset that it distributes?

Here I believe this information refers to the API definition.

We have the attribution field in individual collection descriptions for the attribution, and I imagine this field could also be present in the landing page response for dataset-wide attribution.

However, this is intended for a field that is kept short enough to display by client at the bottom of a map visualization.

[nmtoken]

Oops, yes you are right @jerstlouis I was reading https://docs.ogc.org/is/19-072/19-072.html#rc_core following the link from @ghobona recent email to the ogcapi-coverages list; and just posted the issue here.

I guess it's moot now for coverages especially, but if a licence applies to a service, (as per the strapline This is an example of how to extend the OpenAPI info object to include identifying metadata about both the service and the service provider. then I mean the service and not the data. Obviously, a dataset will also have a licence that may need some attribution, so it applies in both situations.

[jerstlouis]

I think a license / attribution does not apply to a service (though usage rights / terms of service might apply, and they might include a reference to a license and require attributing data retrieved from the service), but the license in the openAPI definition / service metadata I believe refers to the license for the API definition.

[nmtoken]

INSPIRE regulations have licences being applicable to services as well as the datasets they give access to; but even taking your view that the license in the openAPI definition / service metadata refers to the license for the API definition, isn't there still a requirement for attribution, to say the Open Geospatial Consortium?