<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:43 PM, 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, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:04 AM, 80n <<a href="mailto:80n80n@gmail.com">80n80n@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The purpose of the share-alike principle is to enable derived work to be fed<br>
> back into the main body.<br>
<br>
</div>that's your opinion. my opinion is that the purpose of share alike is<br>
to allow data to be remixed, mashed-up or otherwise modified as long<br>
as it's available under the original license. feeding back is a side<br>
effect which many projects (e.g: FSF) do perfectly well without.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Any share-however-you-like license has the properties you describe. We're talking about share-alike here.<br><br>It may suit you, as a consumer of OSM data, to not give a damn about contributing back to the project, but that's not what OSM is about.<br>
<br>80n<br></div></div><br>