[Osmf-talk] Closed board meeting again

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 23.04.19 10:59, Simon Poole wrote:
> Forkability of OSM is an illusion. OSM is not a software project with at
> most a couple of 100 active contributors, we have in total roughly 1.3
> all time contributors and around a 100'000 more active ones. Non of
> these accounts would be available to a fork (longish discussion of the
> legal aspects omitted)

The fact that all those people have "signed" the contributors terms with
the OSMF (and not any forking organisation) is perhaps an important one
to mention. It means that while a forking organisation can distribute
the data that it has received from the OSMF under ODbL, the forking
organisation does not have the other rights granted to the OSMF in the
contributor terms, most notably the ability to change the license.

This doesn't make forking impossible but menas the forking organisation
has less freedom to act than the OSMF.

Bye
Frederik

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