[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Grant Slater
<openstreetmap at firefishy.com>wrote:

> On 30 August 2010 10:36, Chris Browet <cbro at semperpax.com> wrote:
> > As far as I understand the licenses, nobody is permitted to fork the OSM
> > data without permissions, and it is thus not truly "open":
> > - with CC-BY-SA, you'd have to ask every contributor the permission to
> fork
> > their data (or is only attribution needed? To whom then? The individual
> > contributors?)
> > - with ODbL, you'd have to ask OSMF, which will be the "owner" of the
> data.
> >
> > Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
>
> Both CC-BY-SA and ODbL allow forking without needing to ask for permission.
>
> The ability to fork an ODbL dataset was a specific question the LWG
> asked legal council. Legal council answered in the affirmative that
> anyone can fork an ODbL licensed dataset.
>

An ODbL fork would not have same rights to the data as OSMF would have.  It
would be a somewhat asymmetrical fork.  You cannot fork the substance of the
contributor terms.




>
> Relicensing a CC-BY-SA, ODbL or GPL etc license project would require
> asking each of the contributors for permission (or replacing their
> contribution).
>
> Regards
>  Grant
>
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