On Tuesday, December 8, 2009, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:40 AM,
> <mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk');>> wrote:
>
>
> A quick question for the legal people: does ODbL allow the project to
> be forked?
>
> Technically, it does. But remember that the OSMF is granted a special
> license in addition to the ODbL. Any fork would be at a major disadvantage
> as it wouldn't have that special license.
Yes, because the osmf has a direct relationship with the contributors,
and any fork wouldn't. This is similar to the fsf, which asks its
contributors to assign copyright, giving it rights that any fork
purely under the GPL doesn't have.
Cheers,
Matt
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