[OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

80n 80n80n at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 21:46:30 GMT 2010


On 12/9/10, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> I think that, even more than "free and open", share-alike is a term that
> is very difficult to define, and if one tries to define it, one will
> already have written half a new license.

Share alike is a very simple thing to define.  If you receive
something you can only distribute it under exactly the same terms that
you received it.

Any variation on that, like for example, being able to distribute some
part under different terms is share-different, not share-alike.
Simple.



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