On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Robert Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, IMHO, it's was wrong of the OSM project to do neither a copyright
> assignment nor a license that has a clear clause on automatic possibility of
> upgrade to a newer license in the same spirit (i.e. and "and later" clause).

Copyright assignment could never work on a project with 100,000 contributors.

CC-BY-SA 2.0 does have an "and later" clause.

And ODbL is not in the "same spirit" as CC-BY-SA, any more than LGPL
is in the "same spirit" as GFDL.

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