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Re: NavTeq Maps: msg#00022

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Subject: 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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