On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:47:00PM +1200, Joseph Gentle wrote: > > So share-alike itself actually ain't that helpful if the person > > doesn't really want to contribute back. > > > > But if you use community pressure, rather than trying to get medieval > > on their licensing ass, you can get a great result - whatever the > > licence. > > > > cheers > > Richard > Interesting story. I agree - if people don't want to share back, you > will never really force them to do so. Share-alike just drives them > away from your project. > > If they do want to share back, they'll often do so anyway (or in this > case, with some community pressure). You don't need a share-alike > clause.
It is not about the people that want to share back. It is about the people that don't want to share back. See http://gpl-violations.org/ for just a few cases where people obviously didn't want to share back and have been forced (through community coaxing, legal threats or both) because the existance of a share-alike clause. Note that there is no pd-violations.org cu bart _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
