[Sorry for cross-posting, but I think this concerns both lists] Hi,
I'm not sure whether this subject has been brought up already in the past, I had a quick look in the archives but didn't find anything. The Openstreetmap (OSM) project (http://openstreetmap.org/) currently licenses all data under the CC-by-sa 2.0 license. IIRC, some/most of the CC licenses had some problems wrt DFSG-freeness, and I'm pretty sure that we might want to include some of that data in Debian sooner or later, probably as part of some GIS-related packages and/or games or visualization tools which ship with some sample data from OSM. There's a recent post in the OSM blog about the license issue and future plans, with some followup-discussions on the osm-legal list: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=262 http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-January/thread.html Can somebody please clarify whether the current CC-by-sa 2.0 data from OSM can be included in Debian? If not, I think now would be the right time to talk with the OSM people about the issues and to find a solution which allows us to use such data in Debian, if possible. Ideas, comments? Thanks, Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
