[OSM-legal-talk] To calm some waters - about Section 3

[Robert Kaiser]

Simon Biber schrieb:
> I want to contribute my mapping work to a community who will respect my wishes
> that the work remain free. This includes that no-one should be allowed to make a
> derived work and not allow others to have the same freedom over the derived
> work. This is the essence of what the FSF calls copyleft, and what CC calls
> share-alike.

Both allow non-free derivatives of some kind, the CC share-alike even 
more so than the GPL or LGPL. At least that's how I understand things, 
and it's good that way, but then IANAL.

Of course, in many jurisdictions, the data you or I added to OSM is 
probably not even protectable in any way, if what I heard is correct.

Robert Kaiser