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


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