Hmm - I’ve always felt Who’s on First was more of a Wikidata competitor than 
anything.  It contains historical names.. I don’t see it as really having the 
same mission as OSM at all.



> On Aug 22, 2018, at 2:08 PM, Simon Poole <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> WOF as a OSM compeitor.
> 
> Am 22.08.2018 um 20:06 schrieb Kathleen Lu:
>> 
>> > PS: long diatribe on why on earth the linux foundation is supporting an
>> > OSM competitor not included.
>> 
>> mmm... this is not good.
>> Do you know the reasons?
>> 
>> Simon - did you mean an OSM competitor or an ODbL competitor?
>> 
>> (Best I know from various rumors is that various big companies wanted a 
>> LF-blessed open data license and they had things they did not like about 
>> ODbL.)
>> 
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