[Openstreetmap] Re: European Roads?

[Jo Walsh]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 08:55:24AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > What's the advantage over a regular flavoured CC license? i really
> 
> seen some claims that the CC licenses are incompatible with the The
> Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG),
> <URL:http://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html>.  Perhaps we
> GPL or BSD are well known and understood licenses.  Why not use them
> for the map content as well?

My feeling on this is the GPL is a software license not a data
license. Perhaps the distinction isn't really meaningful but some of
the wording is pretty specific. 

I would prefer to see software as suitable going into an operating
system package and data being available from a web service which the
install process can optionally connect to... 
(doesn't debian have processes for reaching out to very non-free stuff
during an install like this?)
don't think the terms of our license should be beholden to the
behaviours of operating systems (which can sometimes be considered
extreme ;) )


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