On 14.03.2014 23:21, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > There's one fairly obvious to me : the share-alike requirement is > necessary to enforce the attribution requirement (otherwise any user > could just change the license to one that doesn't require > attribution).
It would not be legal for them to get rid of the attribution like that. Attribution requirements can exist without share-alike, see e.g. CC-BY. I believe that arrangement would also be the sweet spot for OSM. > The user's best interest is the carrot, but the license is the stick. > There's no harm using both, it's actually better. If having a stick didn't cost us anything, that would obviously be true. But this discussion came about because our stick also hits good users quite a lot. So if the carrot works pretty well by itself, perhaps we should get rid of the stick after all. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
