[Xastir] Map clutter

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:33:44AM -0500, John Kraus wrote:
> > Morning,
> >
> > I have 2 questions and I will try to keep them brief.
> >
> > First what is the status of using the DOS maps as a built in base map
> > system for ham use?  Bob did agree to their ham only usa as long as there
> > is a notification of such.  I am willing to put together a basic package of
> > dos maps either for inclusion in the main tarball or for hosting on the
> > Xastir site.
>
> Putting them in the tarball would be sort of anti-GPL, wouldn't it?

Made me thik a bit more about it.  Found this on SourceForge.  It's
as close as I could find for the case at hand.  It looks to me like
anything we post in CVS or as a file release needs to be
open-source, even data.


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We _could_ have a mode where Xastir could be asked to go snag some
default maps from some non-SourceForge server and install them.  In
fact this could be another "make" operation, or a separate script
for the user to run.

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