Distribution of free maps made with mkgmap

I was wondering what Garmin's attitude towards the distribution free maps made with mkgmap was, are there any legal issues to do with reverse engineering their maps or distributing non licensed maps etc. -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Distribution-of-free-maps-made-with-mkgmap-tp... Sent from the Mkgmap Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

On Thu, Feb 14, gbbickerton wrote:
I was wondering what Garmin's attitude towards the distribution free maps made with mkgmap was, are there any legal issues to do with reverse engineering their maps or distributing non licensed maps etc.
Their answer was to break routing in some regards by removing support from their firmware. Thorsten Yes, I know, the reason for this was more that they needed the space in the firmware for their new features ... -- Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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