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 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. >> > > It's not public domain. > > >> 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. >> > > Well since the tools aren't really up to the job of building scenery > without flaws yet it's not really an issue. The license is likely to be > changing in the near future anyway, so it's pointless worrying about > this sort of thing until the new license is available anyway, and having > spoken to Steve Coast about FlightGear he thought the resulting scenery > was pretty cool, and it's not the sort of thing he'd want to prevent - > FlightGear is actually the first entry on the "Neat Stuff" page on the > OSM wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Neat_Stuff > > Jon (Who has mapped most of Wakefield) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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 could improve the VFR flight training environment a lot (even at times of GPS a cross-checking the "old" VFR chart is not that bad idea - especially not when the electronic wizard fails surprisingly - this is garanteed not theoretical!). Ok, so hopefully OSM data collectors are busy and FlightGear scenery generation can handle the selection process sometime .. Regards 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
