[OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

Chris Browet cbro at semperpax.com
Mon Aug 30 11:11:06 BST 2010


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:02, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Chris Browet wrote:
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> > 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
>
> Ok, thanks. And it would still be possible under ODbL, would it?
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