[OSM-legal-talk] Usage of ODbL

[John Smith]

On 30 September 2010 22:02, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> Commons are for people. Share-alike exists to protect people's ability to
> always use resources in the commons. Not to return resources to upstream
> projects.
>
> Consider the example of the GNU project, which doesn't accept code just on
> the basis of it being licenced under the GPL despite being the project that
> licence was written for.

You should brush up on your history, GPL started because Richard
Stallman shared code with a company and they refused to share the
changes back.