[Openstreetmap] Re: European Roads?

[Frank Mohr]

Jo Walsh wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 08:55:24AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>>GPL or BSD are well known and understood licenses.  Why not use them
>>for the map content as well?

GPL might help me to get the project approval, but

> 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. 

thats also my opinion.

> 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... 

my proposal:
- GPL for software
- LGPL for data structures/libraries to access the data
- CC-BY-SA for data

the data should be available both ways
- online "on demand"
- static installation

> (doesn't debian have processes for reaching out to very non-free stuff
> during an install like this?)

it has

> don't think the terms of our license should be beholden to the
> behaviours of operating systems (which can sometimes be considered
> extreme ;) )

frank