On 2 October 2010 12:04, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > In general the reason a project forks is that the original project has > stagnated and the current maintainers are unresponsive. Or (as we're > seeing now with many of the Sun projects), the original maintainer is > no longer going to put resources toward the project. > > Occasionally you see projects fork for personal reasons, often a mix > of personality conflict combined with some technical decision.
They also tend to fork due to licensing. > 4) No fork is offering any compelling reason to use it over OSM You make some fairly shallow assumptions. CommonMap (CC-by) is operating under a similar premise as the USGS (CC0/PD) the main/only difference being they wish to be able to interact with other government departments but the different countries (AU v US) require different licenses. As for any CC-by-SA fork, there is already a large database of data that won't have to have data removed, and there is also other resources that is only also available under cc-by-sa licensing. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
