[OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Also note the number of successful Wikipedia forks.

The situation around licence changes is a big limitation of existing
open licences. Presumably future licences will include some kind of
meta-licence, where you both licence your contributions under the
current licence, and explicitly allow some future mechanism to
relicence them. Going back and asking contributors for permission is
never, ever going to be practical.

Steve