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 the data. Any modifications you do to the data is you own derived
work which you can distribute as you like.

But if you feel that there is a conflict between the Creative Commons
license and the GPL, then you should consider distributing the OSM based
scenery as Creative Commons.

-Rob




On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Georg Vollnhals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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
>
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