<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
80n wrote:<br>
> And, of course, the same rules will also apply to the main OSM database,<br>
<br>
</div>Will they?<br>
<br>
I always thought that in the future, what I contribute to OSM is not a<br>
database, and OSM is not a database aggregator, but instead I contribute<br>
individual data items, which only become a database on the OSM server.<br>
<br>
So the OSM database would not be derived from another, ODBL licensed<br>
database, and would itself not be subject to the ODBL attribution and<br>
share-alike rules.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>There's no dispensation in the proposed license for a "Master" database. If someone forks the project then the fork should be able to operate on exactly the same basis as the original project. If the master database has some special status then any derivative must also be able to acquire this special status - otherwise the spirit of share-alike is surely violated.<br>
<br>80n<br><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
Bye<br>
Frederik<br>
<br>
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