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Copyright problems with Mapnik[edit]

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I intentionally used text from the mapnik.org page because I am creating the wikipedia page to full fill mapnik trac ticket #194 (http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/194). I will explicitly ask Artim, the developer of Mapnik, if using this text is ok.

Jim McManus

See also https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/mapnik-users/2009-June/002058.html (Dane Springmeyer is a co-author of Mapnik). --Colin Marquardt (talk) 19:57, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]