-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
Martin Spott wrote: > The FlightGear project has strong roots in the OpenSource tradition for > more than ten years now, therefore most questioners have "limited > appreciation" for license barriers within the OpenSource world. Flightgear is GPL licensed. BY-SA is broadly comparable to the GPL. > I'd to give you a rough idea about the process that builds the > FlightGear Scenery. We have different sorts of vector data, mostly > polygon landuse data either from the venerable VMap0 database, which > covers the entire globe, automatically classified from Landsat7 images > or simply hand-drawn. And we have some sources of line data, like the > roads. The GPL doesn't cover non-executable data shipped with a piece of software, and BY-SA data doesn't affect executables that operate on it. So as long as you regard the BY-SA data as data separate from the executable code of FlightGear, the licenses won't clash. > Several people would be happy to see this sort of use getting > considered within future license discussions and maybe also in the > forming of a possibly revised OSM license. So, how are we supposed to > proceed wrt. use of OSM roads in a GPL-licensed project ? Just use them. But make sure any datasets that incorporate them are BY-SA licensed. - - Rob. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjKvLgACgkQCZbRMCZZBfa+nwCfcddv1DuXGElJLpuzN0FBMl22 YhsAn2ripEygHkE3q4hEE7jFs0yRDWJB =JBjy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
