[Osmf-talk] Contributor Terms: is the right to fork granted?

[Niccolo Rigacci]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 12:46:07PM +0000, Dave Stubbs wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Niccolo Rigacci <osm at rigacci.org> wrote:
> >
> > Another point: why point 3 of Contributor Terms (sub-license and
> > license change) is just about OSMF? Why do not extend it to "any
> > party that receives Your Contents"?
> >
> 
> Those terms only make sense when applied to OSMF, not to everyone
> else. Everybody else is bound by the data license itself.

If I think about forking, I see a large difference between the 
Foundation and any other part.

The Foundation can start a licence change as described by the 
Contributor Terms, while the hypothetical forking people are 
strictly bound to the ODBl.

Is it possible and desiderable to remove this inequality?

-- 
Niccolo Rigacci
Firenze - Italy