[Freegis-list] Stra?ennavigation

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Hello Ruben,

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 06:32:03PM +0100, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote:
> I would help a project to build a free geographic database and map routing
> software. I tought about the license of such a database and I would like that
> it was similar to the GPL, meaning that if someone modifies the database
> it must give back the changes (corrections/additions) he made. I remember
> reading somewhere that in the US databases are not protected. Is this correct?
> In the EU there is a Directive (96/9/EC) on the legal protection of databases.
> Anyway, anyone knows if a free database license already exists ?

For the Frida dataset (http://frida.intevation.org/) we've applied the following license:

| The Free Vector GeoData Osnabrück (fvgd-os) is
| Copyright (C) by Intevation GmbH and licensed
| under the GNU General Public License (see COPYING.GPL).
| 
| Additional license agreement:
| 
| The GNU GPL has been chosen because no analog license
| for geographic data does yet exists.
| If in the future the Free Software Foundation Europe
| officially accepts a Geographic Data license as to be analog
| to the GNU GPL, fvgd-os may be upgraded to this new license.

with this we allow to upgrade to the not-yet-existing GPL-like GeoData
license.

We hope to increase the number of vektor data under this license in the
future. Any cooperation is welcome.

	Jan

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