[OSM-legal-talk] OBbL and forks

[Anthony]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:40 AM, <mapping at sheerman-chase.org.uk> wrote:

> A quick question for the legal people: does ODbL allow the project to
> be forked?
>

Technically, it does.  But remember that the OSMF is granted a special
license in addition to the ODbL.  Any fork would be at a major disadvantage
as it wouldn't have that special license.
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