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OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing

OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing
[Front] Posted Oct 22, 2008 17:19 UTC (Wed) by corbet

The OpenStreetMap project is working hard to create a free mapping database with global scope. OSM has seen quite a bit of success, and is growing at an impressive rate. But this project is now confronting an issue which has caused a great deal of grief to many other projects - licensing - and the nature of OSM's work puts it in a unique legal situation. Click below (subscribers only) for a report on the OSM licensing discussion.

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