On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com>wrote:
> On 30 August 2010 10:36, Chris Browet <c...@semperpax.com> wrote: > > As far as I understand the licenses, nobody is permitted to fork the OSM > > data without permissions, and it is thus not truly "open": > > - with CC-BY-SA, you'd have to ask every contributor the permission to > fork > > their data (or is only attribution needed? To whom then? The individual > > contributors?) > > - with ODbL, you'd have to ask OSMF, which will be the "owner" of the > data. > > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > > > Both CC-BY-SA and ODbL allow forking without needing to ask for permission. > > The ability to fork an ODbL dataset was a specific question the LWG > asked legal council. Legal council answered in the affirmative that > anyone can fork an ODbL licensed dataset. > An ODbL fork would not have same rights to the data as OSMF would have. It would be a somewhat asymmetrical fork. You cannot fork the substance of the contributor terms. > > Relicensing a CC-BY-SA, ODbL or GPL etc license project would require > asking each of the contributors for permission (or replacing their > contribution). > > Regards > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-t...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk >
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