[OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

[MJ Ray]

Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org> wrote:
> El Lunes, 4 de Febrero de 2008, MJ Ray escribió:
> > Related: shall we ask debian-legal about the osm-legal-talk thread?
> > It would be good to have OSM data in debian and similar without problem.
>
> IMHO:
>
> - CC deals with licenses for art.
> - Debian deals with licenses for software.
> - Geographical information is neither art or software.

This is an old misunderstanding, similar to saying "I don't care about
newsprint licensing because my writing is not newsprint".

In short, geographical data is neither art or software, but can be
contained in both, so using free software licensing would be good.

Hope that explains,
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