[OSM-talk] Are there any other projects in a similar fork situation? (Slightly OT)

Dave F. davefox at madasafish.com
Sat Oct 2 15:26:02 BST 2010


  On 02/10/2010 03:04, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
>
> 3) OSM has external organizational support
>
> OSM now has organizational, government and commercial support. That's
> something none of the forks will have. And for the pubic-domainers-
> any organization who wants to use the OSM stack without the OSM
> database can (and in some cases) already have done so.

 From what I understand, it appears that OSM is cutting ties with many 
of these due to the wording of the new license/CT.

If the fork goes ahead there will be less data in OSM than the forks.

Cheers
Dave F.



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