[OSM-legal-talk] share-alike on generalized data?

[Rob Myers]

On 06/02/16 11:32 AM, Tobias Wendorff wrote:
> 
> Sure, I understand that. But I thought the main concept behind share-alike
> is to make data better by foreign "investitions".

In general the idea of share-alike is to make sure that downstream users
of data have the same ability to work with the data as upstream users.

So it's about the users continuing to be able to use the data rather
than improving it, although that may be a side effect in some cases.

- Rob.