Christoph Hormann has recently blogged his 2019 OSMF board candidates analysis and recommendations . I’ve submitted a comment which seems to have become stuck in a spam filter, so here it is again:

Hi Christoph,

Thank you very much for your endorsement! I would like to clarify my position on attribution.

Without any doubt, we should not “[ask] nicely but not do anything of substance.” Attribution, as I write in my answer, is essential. We must make sure that our guidelines are crystal clear about what we expect. Clear and reliable guidelines are good not only for contributors. Reusers need guidelines they can trust to frame how they can use OpenStreetMap, without the risk of upsetting mappers.

Any license, without the potential of enforcement, is nothing but words, and of no strength to secure an open project at all. When the guidelines aren’t met, we do need to be able to go further than ask nicely. The recent action by the board to give FOSSGIS a PoA in one case to enforce attribution is a very positive thing.