[OSM-talk] Let's prepare to Fork OSM to a CCBYSA 2.0continuation

[Liz]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> 2. Much more stringent requirements are put on lots of projects
> 
> You may have heard of the GNU project. Are you aware that all
> contributors to GNU project must sign over not just license
> agreements, but copyright assignments?
> 
> Just this week a new project came along called OpenStack, and all
> contributors must sign a license agreement to the central body.
> 
> This is normal and there are very good reasons these organizations do
> what they do.

However, that its the original agreement which all of these contributors 
signed up using.
Other projects have different ways of handling the copyright issues. 

Both schemes are *normal* but changing between them is not.