On 25 March 2011 10:57, Jukka Rahkonen <jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi> wrote:
> Grant Slater writes:
>>
>> Not true. ODbL licensed data *can* be forked at any time without
>> asking anyone for their blessing.
>>
>> I don't see how you come to the conclusion otherwise. The Licensing
>> Working Group consulted with a lawyer during drafting of the ODbL to
>> ensure that the ODbL licensed content would be forkable.
>
> What would the proper way for a fork to deal with those data publishers who 
> want
> to be attributed? Would it be enough for the fork maintainer to have a link to
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors?
>

The OSM contributor terms specify
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution which redirects to the
page you listed. So yes, although a snapshot would likely also be
acceptable too.

Also worth going through section 4.2 of ODbL 1.0 text.
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/#4-0-conditions-of-use

Regards
 Grant

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