OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. Marble, a virtual desktop globe application and widget for KDE desktop, will support OpenStreetMap in KDE 4.1. Once you start Marble and select "OpenStreetMap" as a theme then Marble will directly start to download OpenStreetMap tiles from the OpenStreetMap server.
Full story »
-->
Categories
From the staff of FSDaily: Comedians in Perth, Magicians in Perth, Bands in Perth
can.axis
3 years 37 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago
AGPL
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap_License
This seems very impressive, but I wonder what would be different if OpenStreetMap project was licensed under the GNU AGPL license...
lozz
3 years 37 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago
Re. AGPL
Yeah, it would be nice to see this great software project with an AGPL license. It's a project where local groups could work towards extending the functionality for their own local area.
milliams
3 years 37 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago
Licensing
It wouldn't really make sense to use AGPL since OSM isn't a web service, it's really just a database (only the slippymap front end is a service and that's not OSM's code). There's ongoing work to come up with a license that keeps the data as free as possible while keeping the project healthy.