[OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

[Jane Smith]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:34 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 30 August 2010 12:11, Chris Browet <cbro at semperpax.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:02, 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
> >>
> > Ok, thanks. And it would still be possible under ODbL, would it?
>
> ODbL is share-alike too, so yes.


That is not true as 80n has shown. It's an anti-thetan license with pseudo
GPL clauses and is Racist against Australians.


>  And I started to think some time
> ago, that such a fork will make a lot of sense considering the
> facebook-style Contributor Terms osmf wants people to agree to.  It
> would be a place for all the people that want share-alike and all
> those that use sources that want share-alike, like those tracing from
> Nearmap and a number of import sources, one of which I have used.  The
> OSMF would be able to include all this data in their planet snapshots
> and make accessible through OSM API, and it wouldn't diverge from the
> main database.
>
>
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