[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

[Robert Kaiser]

John Smith schrieb:
> On 30 August 2010 20:03, Rob Myers<rob at robmyers.org>  wrote:
>> The majority (>  50%) of GPL projects are now GPL 3. Which is hardly an
>> argument against allowing relicencing.
>
> There is a little bit of a difference between changing versions that
> are merely an extension of the existing license, than changing
> licenses, that is going from GPL to BSD...

If anything, OSM is about to go from BSD go "LGPL and later" right now.

And then, the GPL v3 is basically a completely different license than 
the GPL v2, even in large parts of its spirit - and still everyone can 
use it when projects were clever enough to use a "GPL v2 and later" clause.

Robert Kaiser