Re: Open Access to Geospatial Data

Simply applying the GPL or LGPL to geospatial data is valid. Consider the data 
to be the "source code" which is interpreted by computer to display, analyze, whatever.

(See <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOtherThanSoftware>)


Here is the FSF's list of licenses:
<http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html>



On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:59:46PM +0200, Maurizio Trevisani wrote:
> Coul'd you help me?
> Where can I find samples of licence, similar tu the ones available for
> open source software (GPL, MPL, and so on), for geospatial data?
> Is there a site similar to http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php
> specifically about geodata?
> Thanks,
> Maurizio Trevisani
>