[OSM-talk] Explaining to NASA why the ASTER data should be freely licensed

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Thu Jul 2 22:34:05 BST 2009


On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> # When presenting or publishing ASTER GDEM data, I agree to include
> "ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA."

That clause seems very similar to the BSD advertising clause (and is
problematic for the same reasons):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#UC%20Berkeley%20advertising%20clause

-- 
Jeff Ollie




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