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Mostly historical reasons made OSGeo choose to copyright the content of this Wiki and the OSGeo web site under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Applying the GNU FDL license to educational material is one method of producing Appropriately Licensed Material for OSGeo.