Announcing Open Licensing for our Places Data | SimpleGeo · Blog
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"Today we [Simple Geo] would like to announce that we’re making the data in our Places product public using the Creative Commons Zero, or “No Copyright”. It is our belief that facts should be free, as in freedom. We wanted to see the proliferation of places data that developers could easily use, reuse, or basically do whatever they wanted with, so we took matters into our own hands and began building our own database of places that were free of the existing restrictions in the market...."