[OSM-talk] License plan - minimum-legalese option

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
> For the benefit of countries where a database right exists, and 'for the
> avoidance of doubt' as the ODbL says, add a short remark that the OSM foundation
> (which is the entity which has collated together all of the individual bits of
> mapmaking work into a giant database) will not assert its database right to stop
> distribution of OSM data, provided it's done under the CC-BY-SA.

What gives the OSMF special DB right to the collection of user-owned
CC-BY-SA data as opposed to anyone else running a mirror of the DB?