Re: [DebianGIS] Openstreetmap data license

["John Halton" <johnhalton@gmail.com>]

On Jan 14, 2008 2:56 PM, Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> wrote:
> The Openstreetmap (OSM) project (http://openstreetmap.org/) currently
> licenses all data under the CC-by-sa 2.0 license. IIRC, some/most of the CC
> licenses had some problems wrt DFSG-freeness

My understanding is that CC-by-sa 2.0 is regarded as non-free for DFSG
purposes. See: http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html.

> Can somebody please clarify whether the current CC-by-sa 2.0 data from OSM
> can be included in Debian?

So my guess is that the answer to that question is "no" (at least as
regards inclusion in "main").

John

(TINLA)