On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> cc-by-sa (and almost? every viral license) allows for forking as long as >> said fork is under the same license. Note the number of Wikipedia forks and >> mirrors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks > > Also note the number of successful Wikipedia forks.
Sarcasm, eh? There'd probably be at least one big one if the WMF-hosted Wikipedia died out for whatever reason. That's one benefit of free licensing - a backup plan should the original host die. > > The situation around licence changes is a big limitation of existing > open licences. Presumably future licences will include some kind of > meta-licence, where you both licence your contributions under the > current licence, and explicitly allow some future mechanism to > relicence them. Going back and asking contributors for permission is > never, ever going to be practical. We could always wait until all the Disney heirs die... Actually it might be good for a free license to specify a short term of copyright (and contract and whatever else one chooses to use to lock up data), making relicensing easy that specified number of years after the start of dual licensing. But it's too late for that, and this is pretty much legal talk rather than general talk, so I'll shut up. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
