[OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

Joseph Gentle josephg at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 12:47:00 BST 2008


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Richard Fairhurst
<richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> So share-alike itself actually ain't that helpful if the person
> doesn't really want to contribute back.
>
> But if you use community pressure, rather than trying to get medieval
> on their licensing ass, you can get a great result - whatever the
> licence.
>
> cheers
> Richard

Interesting story. I agree - if people don't want to share back, you
will never really force them to do so. Share-alike just drives them
away from your project.

If they do want to share back, they'll often do so anyway (or in this
case, with some community pressure). You don't need a share-alike
clause.

-J




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