Re: [Flightgear-devel] Open Street Maps Licence caution

2008-06-10 Thread Jon Stockill
Rob Oates wrote: Hi Georg, I think you are being overly strict in the interpretation. The Flightgear project currently distributes maps generated from Public Domain data as GPL. Why should this be any different for OSM? It to uses Public Domain data to generate it's maps, so you are free

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Open Street Maps Licence caution

2008-06-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Jon Stockill schrieb: Rob Oates wrote: Hi Georg, I think you are being overly strict in the interpretation. The Flightgear project currently distributes maps generated from Public Domain data as GPL. Why should this be any different for OSM? It to uses Public Domain data to generate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Open Street Maps Licence caution

2008-06-10 Thread Jon Stockill
Georg Vollnhals wrote: Hi Rob and Jon, thank you for your answers which inspire myself with confidence that not all is lost :-) - I got a private mail with the same tenor, too. Selected OSM data from Europe (as other parts of the world are behind) for the common FlightGear scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Open Street Maps Licence caution

2008-06-09 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Bohnert Paul schrieb: Hi all, Anyone can use and distribute Open Street Maps data for free. I don't think OSM data can be distrubuted under the GPL. If some one knows better please weight in. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/FAQ#What_does_your_licence_allow_me_to_do.3F Paul B.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Open Street Maps Licence caution

2008-06-09 Thread Rob Oates
Hi Georg, I think you are being overly strict in the interpretation. The Flightgear project currently distributes maps generated from Public Domain data as GPL. Why should this be any different for OSM? It to uses Public Domain data to generate it's maps, so you are free to do what you want with

[Flightgear-devel] Open Street Maps Licence caution

2008-06-06 Thread Bohnert Paul
Hi all, Anyone can use and distribute Open Street Maps data for free. I don't think OSM data can be distrubuted under the GPL. If some one knows better please weight in. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/FAQ#What_does_your_licence_allow_me_to_do.3F Paul B.