On 09/02/2010 05:09 AM, Eric Jarvies wrote:
On Sep 1, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Anthony wrote:
If ODbL were CC-BY-SA for databases, I'd be in favor of it.
+1
ODbL *is* share-alike for databases, with attribution.
What it isn't is share-alike for produced works.
Even BY-SA doesn't cover absolutely everything it touches. It doesn't
cover collective works, for example. This may not matter to you or me
but it is controversial for photographers when their BY-SA work is used
to illustrate a non-BY-SA article.
Making mash-ups easier and not excluding incompatible data sources in
what are now called produced works has always been a strong goal of the
OSM community that I've encountered. ODbL achieves that without
sacrificing share-alike on the *database*.
- Rob.
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