Looks like there's a bit more background from OSMF members here:
Overturemaps.org - big-businesses OSMF alternative —
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/overturemaps-org-big-businesses-osmf-alternative/6760
(note that the poster SimonPoole in that thread is OSMF's legal counsel,
or possibly former counsel. He's part of the OSM woodwork, and is the
SME for data licensing)
It seems that the main actors in Overture were not happy with the
rigorous way that data had to be vetted and approved by community before
being allowed to be imported into OSM's database. Any OSM contributor
can appeal any change in the map, and potentially have large data
imports removed. (That's what happened with a community approved and
Treasury Board of Canada supported countrywide import of buildings
across Canada, btw. A mapper in Toronto didn't like that ‘his’ building
outlines were going to be replaced, so raised enough of a stink that the
whole project was abandoned.)
Overture does claim to add some features that OSM (by design) lacks: 3d
support, routing and Points of Interest. OSM does have very large
corporate users and contributors, but corporate users didn't like the
democratic aspect, hence the fork to Overture.
Good luck to 'em. Let's hope they fare better than http://fosm.org/, a
fork of the OSM database from mappers who didn't agree with the Great
OSM Licence Change of 201x
Stewart
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