[OSM-legal-talk] "A Creative Commons iCommons license"

[Richard Fairhurst]

80n wrote:
> It's my understanding that the ODbL is very different from a CC-BY-SA
> license, so I think this would be a very unlikely thing to happen.

It's a share-alike licence with some attribution provision - I'd say that,
in fact, the two licences have pretty much the same intent. It's just that
one works for data and the other doesn't.

"Two incompatible licences with the same intent" is broadly why FSF agreed
to facilitate Wikipedia's migration to CC-BY-SA, too.

> More importantly the Factual Information License, which is what
> contributors
> will actually be signing up to, is totally unlike CC-BY-SA in every
> respect.

Right - so is the proposal that contributors actually sign up to FIL?
There's been some uncertainty over that in the past.

cheers
Richard
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