[OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 11:02:15 BST 2010



Chris Browet wrote:
> 
> As far as I understand the licenses, nobody is permitted to fork the OSM
> data without permissions, and it is thus not truly "open":
> 
cc-by-sa (and almost? every viral license) allows for forking as long as
said fork is under the same license. Note the number of Wikipedia forks and
mirrors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks
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