begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:07:19PM -0800: > Michael O'Keefe wrote: > > It's not hard, it's expensive. Last time I looked, I think it cost $180k > > to get the USA, and similar cost for Canada from the Canadian govt. > > Every time someone from the govt proposes to make the data free to the > > public, the "Garmin"'s of the country/world convince them otherwise to > > protect their investment. > > That is why someone needs to take the data and re-publish it under a > GPL-like license.
LGPL ... it's data, and some wag might decide that GPL'd data means that the code that drives it is GPL'd. -Stewart "Just want source & mod rights, not redistribution rights" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
