Frederik Ramm schrieb: > If you take a GPL program and modify it (or not) you can distribute it > and you are then the licensor. ODbL doesn't allow that.
I think the provisions of the GPL and ODbL are quite similar: GPL v3: "Sublicensing is not allowed" - "Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate that work, subject to this License." "You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions: ... You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy." ODbL 1.0 RC1: "You may not sublicense the Database. Each time You communicate the Database ... to anyone else in any way, the Licensor offers to the recipient a licence to the Database on the same terms and conditions as this Licence." "Any Derivative Database that You Publicly Use must be only under the terms of: i. This Licence; ii. A later version of this Licence similar in spirit to this Licence; or iii. A compatible licence. If You license the Derivative Database under one of the licences mentioned in (iii), You must comply with the terms of that licence." _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
