[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] GSoC applications are in! MENTORS wanted

[Nick Black]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at sspaeth.de> wrote:
> Hakan Tandogan wrote:
>  > I am an self-employed Computer Scientist with lots of experience in
>  > databases and web applications. I live and work in Germany.
>
>  Hi Hakan (I can probably talk in German with you :-))
>
>  thanks for volunteering, I have accepted you as a mentor. You can now
>  click on any proposal you like and say that you are willing to mentor a
>  proposal (such as the geonames one). I can't enter info like this
>  myself. Google seems rather strict with this.
>
>  Honestly, I was wondering about the Geonames project application. I am
>  not sure (from a license point of view) that we can import Geonames
>  data, as they also require attribution.

And because they derive from Google Maps, more importantly.

>
>  spaetz
>
>  CC dev list to get some feedback on the license issues involved.
>
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