[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

[Albertas Agejevas]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:22:12PM +0200, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Albertas Agejevas <alga at pov.lt> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 01:12:16AM +0200, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
> > Want an example of a use case DB integration?  Consider flight
> > simulators.  It would be good to have scenery generated by combining
> > data from OSM with data with satellite photos, models of buildings,
> > altitude data.  Brushing away integration with other databases makes
> > the possibility of having a single download of free scenery for
> > free flight sims combining all that data a lot less feasible.
> 
> they can use the osm data. come one. They just have to make a package
> called osm-data and distribute it separately. that is like saying that
> the gcc makes your programs gpl.
> think again.

But FlightGear, for instance, currently uses "cooked" scenery files,
distributing OSM data separately is not an option.  So it is not
included at all. (I am not associated with FlightGear).

Albertas