[OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM

[80n]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 80n wrote:
> > And, of course, the same rules will also apply to the main OSM database,
>
> Will they?
>
> I always thought that in the future, what I contribute to OSM is not a
> database, and OSM is not a database aggregator, but instead I contribute
> individual data items, which only become a database on the OSM server.
>
> So the OSM database would not be derived from another, ODBL licensed
> database, and would itself not be subject to the ODBL attribution and
> share-alike rules.
>

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.

80n




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