But OSM is CC by SA, as per David's reply and the OSM website. Brett KQ9N
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Liz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:58:53 -0500 > Brett Friermood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anyone know what that fosm.org site is all about? I can't find any >> reason for it to exist other than as a mirror of OSM or just to >> obfuscate things. Same licensing, same data. But then in the single >> blog post they claim they have more data and overall better >> statistics. Plus they mention comparing the decrease in contributors >> to OSM with any increase in contributions to fosm. >> >> Maybe just the lack of info throwing me off, but it sounds like there >> is some malicious intent going on there. >> >> I just noticed the dates of 2011. Was this maybe a parallel start up >> to OSM that didn't? >> >> Brett KQ9N >> >> > fosm is a fork of OSM > It is not licensed the same. > OSM data is licensed under a unique licence, the ODbL. > fosm data is CC-by-SA. > > Liz _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
