[OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

[Matt Amos]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:04 AM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> The purpose of the share-alike principle is to enable derived work to be fed
> back into the main body.

that's your opinion. my opinion is that the purpose of share alike is
to allow data to be remixed, mashed-up or otherwise modified as long
as it's available under the original license. feeding back is a side
effect which many projects (e.g: FSF) do perfectly well without.

cheers,

matt