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RE: Isn't April 2010 before the license change?
by Not2Sure on Fri 9th Mar 2012 14:59
in reply to "Isn't April 2010 before the license change?"
... so perhaps they intend to fork OSM to avoid the new license (though even the old license means they must give credit)?
That is correct and my assumption as well. It will be fairly interesting to see how it plays out as a test of the limits of CC-SA. Basically, if you take some data under CC-SA and improve it, eventually (but how long does it take before) it's "your" data and attribution is no longer necessary. CC-SA was always a bad license for "malleable" information imho. Take a map with some OSM data and layer on some other data from other sources. What license(s) apply to the final map result/output?
That is one of the many reasons that OSM moved to the ODbl license in May of 2010. The other primarily being as I recall that US copyright law has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on data and is meant to apply only to literary, artistic works.
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... so perhaps they intend to fork OSM to avoid the new license (though even the old license means they must give credit)?