[OSM-talk] Community Data License Agreement – Permissive and ODbL?

[Rory McCann]

On 22/08/18 20:06, Kathleen Lu wrote:
> (Best I know from various rumors is that various big companies wanted
> a LF-blessed open data license and they had things they did not like
> about ODbL.)

AFAIK the Linux Foundation only has corporate members, and has a board
which only (big) private companies can vote for. Only corporations which
pay $500k per year can vote for 50%+ of the board.

Currently LF "Platinum members", who (now) get 1 board member each (out
of 22) AT&T, Cisco, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, Intel,
Microsoft, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm, Samsung, Tencent and VMWare.

See also: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39546.html