diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ece18a3..07a51ec 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,19 +3,15 @@ A minimal Python library to draw customized maps from [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/11.0733/106.3078) created using the [osmnx](https://github.com/gboeing/osmnx), [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/), [shapely](https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html) and [vsketch](https://github.com/abey79/vsketch) libraries. -This work is [licensed](LICENSE) under a GNU Affero General Public License v3.0: -- You can make commercial use, distribute and modificate this project, but must **disclose** the source code with the license and copyright notice. +This work is [licensed](LICENSE) under a GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (you can make commercial use, distribute and modify this project, but must **disclose** the source code with the license and copyright notice) -Note about NFTs: +## Note about crediting and NFTs: +- Please keep the printed message on the figures crediting my repository and OpenStreetMap ([mandatory by their license](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)). - I am personally **against** NFTs for their [environmental impact](https://earth.org/nfts-environmental-impact/), the fact that they're a [giant money-laundering pyramid scheme](https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1445795667826208770) and the structural incentives they create for [theft](https://twitter.com/NFTtheft) in the open source and generative art communities. -- **I do not authorize in any way this project to be used for selling NFTs**, although I have no legal way of enforcing my intent. **Respect the creator**. +- **I do not authorize in any way this project to be used for selling NFTs**, although I cannot legally enforce it. **Respect the creator**. - The [AeternaCivitas](https://twitter.com/AeternaCivitas) and [geoartnft](twitter.com/geoartnft) projects have used this work to sell NFTs and refused to credit it. See how they reacted after being exposed: [AeternaCivitas](etc/NFT_theft_AeternaCivitas.jpg), [geoartnft](etc/NFT_theft_geoart.jpg). - **I have closed my other generative art projects on Github and won't be sharing new ones as open source to protect me from the NFT community**. -Note about crediting: -- Please keep the printed message on the figures crediting OpenStreetMap and my repository (The OSM credit is [mandatory by their license](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)). -- **CREDIT OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS!** - Buy Me a Coffee at ko-fi.com ## As seen on [Hacker News](https://web.archive.org/web/20210825160918/https://news.ycombinator.com/news):