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https://adsb.lol provides this data licensed under ODbL, this site violates the attribution and share alike clauses

You can find the attribution and the link to the details at the bottom right corner of the main page. It links to the documentation: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed, which provides the full details. Additionally, you can read the license here: https://github.com/adsblol/globe_history_2023/blob/main/LICE...

This is some copyleft troll-level pedantry [0]. They clearly made a good effort to comply with the license. Additionally, ADSB.lol requires contributors to license their contributions under CC0. Databases that don't have some sort of creative work involved in their compilation aren't copyrightable, so it's very dubious that anyone could enforce any sort of restrictive license over ADSB.lol's database as a whole when its individual contributions are CC0.

[0]: https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/24/a-bug-in-early-creative-c...

Not at all. It is the polite request to please correctly attribute the data that a company is using for their marketing stunts.

I love the fact that techbros being called out for violating other people's intellectual property immediately revert to "TROLL!" or "this is too hard!" instead of actually engaging with the question at hand. And btw - until you actually create the software stack to collect the data and run an aggregator, don't condescend on people who do the hard work that you seem to feel free to copy in violation of said license.

No one said complying was too hard. This is one of the coolest things anyone's done with your data, they made a good faith effort to comply, and you've done nothing but act like a jerk and project your issues all over this thread. If I ran an ADS-B aggregator that was based on the same software as a half-dozen others, which hadn't seen any significant innovation in years, sitting on tons of data with absolutely amazing potential, I might consider praising the person who just revolutionized the world of ADS-B analysis & visualization, and possibly begging them to help me. And "P.S., could you throw in [specific attribution text]."

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