[Xastir] Copyright marker on OSM was an xastir/aprs home video

Brett Friermood brett.friermood at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 18:04:59 EDT 2014


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 <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:58:53 -0500
> Brett Friermood <brett.friermood at gmail.com> 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



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