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. > > > > > Hi Paul,
thank you very much for this hint. I read most of the document and I think you are right regarding the intended new licence. Although I respect all aspects why some sort of constringend licence might be necessary it looks as if it is/will not be easy to use OSM data for FlightGear without some sort of "extra" licence agreement. This might not be impossible if the data are protected by converting them in a way that they cannot be used by a third party as "data" but only as a graphical surface area ... and this would not show all converted data as precise as a topographic map created with OSM data as FG can only use a reduced dataset considering performance aspects. As for me I will stop collecting data for the moment as I my intention was to improve the local OSM data in respect of a later use by FlightGear. So let's first see if this is possible or not in the future. Thank you once again for pointing to the licence problems, this was not clear for me. Georg EDDW ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
