[OSM-legal-talk] Forking - was Paid services from OSM

[Liz]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Adrian wrote:
> It's worth noting that it isn't possible to fork OSM on the same terms
> at the moment, even keeping the same licence.
>
> For an example, consider where Australia will be in 50 years time. The
> current OSM database can solve that problem, a fork based on the planet
> dump would be unable to.

I can't fathom this either concretely or abstractly?
Are you moving my home more than the odd centimeter per year of continental 
drift?
Or if we have a big database such that Australia is a significant part - what 
problem are we solving??