Re: NavTeq Maps

Quoting Ulrich Ruess <utde-yMByWxkO7FcWI+UwmH2aBQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> These prices are reasonable, if the maps are good and regularly updated (of
> course with an extra charge for up-dates).
>
> The license should not be a concern, because maps is data!! It is totally
> unreasonable to assume that when you use free software the data that are
> manipulated by this software also must be free.
>
> Please everybody thinks this over.
The issue is that the owner of non-free data can in many cases dictate 
how that
data is used in the license for that data.

Unfortunately, I would not be surprised if NavTeq would forbid licensing their
data for use with any open-source application because of their desire to
license the data based on the features of the application.  (e.g. voice
prompts/routing/etc are extra $$$).  Note that they want people to sign an NDA
just to obtain *PRICING* information on their data.

i.e. there's nothing that prevents non-free data from being used with free
software, but there can potentially be many restrictions preventing free
software from being used with a particular non-free dataset due to that
dataset's license.

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