[MetaCRS] [Proj] Common SQLite-based dictionaries

[Norman Vine]

On Aug 3, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

> 
>> On Aug 3, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> I recognize there are some things to work through on the EPSG ToS. Thanks for bringing these issues up.
>> 
>> For the eventual Debian package this is the most important issue to
>> resolve. The CSV files distributed with geotiff are split off because
>> the EPSG ToS is not acceptable for the Debian main repository, the ToS
>> is incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines and the Open
>> Source Definition. The ToS discriminates against field of endeavor and
>> limits derived works via parameter modification restrictions.
> 
> Are there some links to discussion about why Debian has made this determination?


This has come up before 

https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/RevisedEPSGLicense

I appreciate EPSG's position about associating their name with changed/edited tables

Norman