[OSM-legal-talk] public transport routing and OSM-ODbL

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 07/09/2010 02:22 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> So let's say Australia wants to stick with CC licences because most of your
> data is imported and you reckon it's not relicensable under ODbL.[1]
>
> And let's say Europe wants to move to ODbL because CC isn't valid for data
> in most of Europe and most of our data is surveyed.
>
> That sounds like a fork to me. Cheerio.

There are good forks and bad forks. A bad fork would be two Australia 
datasets with different people editing them under different licenses. A 
good fork would be to agree to have the Aussie dataset under whatever 
license the Australia community prefers, and use ODbL for the rest of 
the world. It's not *that* difficiult technically. And we do have a 
tradition to not centralise things unnecessarily in OSM...

Bye
Frederik