[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v1] Change license text to ODbL

Thu Jan 10 20:56:55 GMT 2013

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 01, WanMil wrote:

> Hi,
>
> attached patch changes the default license text to ODbL. Anyhow I am not 
> sure if the text is correct. The new license text would be:
>
>    Map data (c) OpenStreetMap and contributors
>    http://www.openstreetmap.org/

According to the OSM webpages, I think this should be:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

>    This map data is made available under the Open Database License:
>    http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/.
>    Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed
>    under the Database Contents License:
>    http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/
>
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> WanMil
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I noticed that with every img I create there is a *_license.txt file
>> generated that reads:
>>
>>      Map data (c) OpenStreetMap and contributors
>>      http://www.openstreetmap.org/
>>
>>      Map data licenced under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0
>>      See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
>>
>>      Map created with mkgmap-r2426
>>
>> You know since quite some time the OSM Data is no longer licensed under
>> Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0, but there was a switch to
>> Open Data Commons Open Database Lizenz
>> <http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/> (ODbL)
>> http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
>>
>> Ciao,
>>    Franco
>

> Index: resources/installer/license_template.txt
> ===================================================================
> --- resources/installer/license_template.txt	(revision 2412)
> +++ resources/installer/license_template.txt	(working copy)
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>  Map data (c) OpenStreetMap and contributors
>  http://www.openstreetmap.org/
>  
> -Map data licenced under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0
> -See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
> -
> +This map data is made available under the Open Database License: 
> +http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. 
> +Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the 
> +Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/

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