[Legal-general] question re. OSMF's attitude to hosting alternative licence servers

[mapping at sheerman-chase.org.uk]

Hi all,

Well a week has passed with no comment from OSMF. They were going  
through elections recently, so that is understandable. So this email  
is another attempt to ask: What is OSMF's attitude to hosting other  
servers under different license regimes?

Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Who should I be asking, the server admins?

Nic's commented:
> But I'm only in favour of forking if someone (USGS ?) makes a very  
> large donation

While I agree it would be nice to have them donate resources, I don't  
quite see how USGS owes us anything. We can probably achieve this  
without their help (but we can achieve more with their help, of  
course). Also, if USGS controls the database server, it might not be a  
good idea if we want to change the software or something - they would  
then have a say in running the server and they might not have the same  
goals as OSM.

Regards,

TimSC