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Interesting, I see these and a few others listed at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Location/Bootstrap https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Location/Bootstrap (a

Interesting, I see these and a few others listed at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Location/Bootstrap https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Location/Bootstrap (all one of copyleft, (non)commercial, or unknown). While https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Location#Goals https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Location#Goals says "Make as much of the data as possible available under permissive open licenses." Assuming permissive means what it usually does, the above clearly aren't compatible. Curious what permissive licenses will be used, when data will be available.

cpeterso 13y ago
One of our original project goals was to publish an open, downloadable database. Some smaller geolocation projects have downloadable databases, but Mozilla's legal and privacy teams were not ready to take that step yet. Geolocation is a very sensitive privacy issue for "stumbler" users, WiFi access point owners, and end users. Once you publish data, it's hard to take it back. <:) For now, we're just hosting a public API. You can read some early ideas for obscuring access point identities (using hashes of one or more MAC addresses) on the mozilla.dev.security newsgroup: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security/0qT0grS_PIY https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security... You can read some of the Mozilla discussion about data licenses on Bugzilla: https://bugzil.la/911306 https://bugzil.la/911306