Martin Spott wrote: > People have probably started wondering why those who claim to be busy > building and distributing World Scenery for FlightGear didn't jump on > the same track, using CORINE and OSM data as input for the World > Scenery, like Jake did with 'his' Innsbruck Scenery (as well as a > French fellow who's been building CORINE/OSM-based Scenery for Grenoble > and a few other places in France). (here is the french fellow jumping in the thread) > The background is pretty simple - our 'excuse' ;-) for not doing so: > Technically it's not a big deal to build FlightGear Scenery with CORINE > and OSM (and we've already done so for 'private' samples). Yet we have > to face the fact that neither of the two datasets ships under a License > which allows the distribution of Scenery under the GPL-affected > FlightGear umbrella (I'll leave the boring details out). > Thanks for those explanations, Martin. However, let me point out that the license for the CORINE data for France seems pretty flexible to me. (Note that this is true for France only, and that each country distributes their data with their own license terms.) The conditions of use can be found here: http://www.ifen.fr/clc/CORINE_Land_Cover_-_Condition_Utilisation.htm (in french only, sorry). This is not legalese, but states explicitly that any use (including re-distribution and commercial exploitation) is allowed, as long as it comes with a mention of the source (it doesn't say where the source must be mentioned). Is this incompatible with our goals ?
As for the OSM data, their Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) permits redistribution under the "same or similar" license. Could this not be the GPL ? Sorry for asking this, as I feel that those topics must have been discussed at length already, but I could not find any information in the archives or on the wiki. Maxime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
