On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:14 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/12/8 Matt Amos <zerebub...@gmail.com>: >> 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. > > Right, so this is one thing that isn't being made so clear. It's been > said multiple times that the ODbL transition in summary is the spirit > of CC-By-SA taken and made into a proper license for a database. But > actually it's the spirit of CC-By-SA + copyright assignment, like that > of Mozilla and others, which makes a difference.
it's in that spirit, but it's also worth pointing out that we aren't asking for copyright assignment or any other rights assignment. that's a subtle, but often important difference. cheers, matt _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk