[OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

Brendan Morley morb.gis at beagle.com.au
Mon Dec 14 12:36:48 GMT 2009


On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:45:44 +0000, Peter Childs wrote:

>2009/12/14 Brendan Morley <morb.gis at beagle.com.au>:
>> Maybe I missed something in the discussion but...
>>
>> Why must there be migration to the new licence?  Why can't we run both indefinitely?
>>
>>

>Because there are things you can do with one that you can't do with
>the other, and there are things you must do with one and you don't
>need to do with the other.

>eg

>CCbySA says you must attribute where it came from, ODbl make no such
>demand. So by following ODbl you break CCbySA..... and the law is
>about black and white not shades of grey.

For the avoidance of doubt, ways/nodes/relations (and I suppose tags, to be rigorous) would be assigned one licence only.


Brendan

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