<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Matt Amos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zerebubuth@gmail.com">zerebubuth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:14 PM, andrzej zaborowski <<a href="mailto:balrogg@gmail.com">balrogg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> 2009/12/8 Matt Amos <<a href="mailto:zerebubuth@gmail.com">zerebubuth@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2009, Anthony <<a href="mailto:osm@inbox.org">osm@inbox.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:40 AM, <<a href="mailto:mapping@sheerman-chase.org.uk">mapping@sheerman-chase.org.uk</a> <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '<a href="mailto:mapping@sheerman-chase.org.uk">mapping@sheerman-chase.org.uk</a>');>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> A quick question for the legal people: does ODbL allow the project to<br>
>>> be forked?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Technically, it does. But remember that the OSMF is granted a special license in addition to the ODbL. Any fork would be at a major disadvantage as it wouldn't have that special license.<br>
>><br>
>> Yes, because the osmf has a direct relationship with the contributors,<br>
>> and any fork wouldn't. This is similar to the fsf, which asks its<br>
>> contributors to assign copyright, giving it rights that any fork<br>
>> purely under the GPL doesn't have.<br>
><br>
> Right, so this is one thing that isn't being made so clear. It's been<br>
> said multiple times that the ODbL transition in summary is the spirit<br>
> of CC-By-SA taken and made into a proper license for a database. But<br>
> actually it's the spirit of CC-By-SA + copyright assignment, like that<br>
> of Mozilla and others, which makes a difference.<br>
<br>
</div>it's in that spirit, but it's also worth pointing out that we aren't<br>
asking for copyright assignment or any other rights assignment. that's<br>
a subtle, but often important difference.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Matt, could you explain why it's an important difference please?<br><br><br></div></div><br>