Grant Slater wrote: >> A quick question for the legal people: does ODbL allow the project to >> be forked? > > Yes it does. The LWG sought specific legal advise on this. We wouldn't > be an open project if this was not allowed.
That fork would have less options than OSMF has, though. Most importantly, it could only use the published ODbL data. It wouldn't have the rights granted by the Contributor Terms, namely publishing data as CC-by-sa or (with contributor support) any other open license. Considering that the LWG seems to consider these options strategically important, the fork would be at a disadvantage. I'm not sure about attribution, either. Wouldn't the fork have to attribute OSM as well, making attribution significantly less convenient? Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
