Product Name: U.S. Street Map Database
Producer: Bruce Perens
Version: 0.0.1

Copyright (C) 1999 Bruce Perens
This is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License
(the GPL), which is reproduced in the file "COPYING".

For purposes of interpreting the GPL in connection with this work:

1. "Linking" or "derivation" includes use of this database by a computer
   program. In most works using this database, the database will be by far 
   the largest component of the product, and any work using it must be
   considered a derived work.

2. The database is distributed in the form of compressed text files. These
   will generally be processed into to a more compact form to provide improved
   space or reference efficiency before use. The text form should be considered
   "source code" and the more compact form should be
   considered a "compiled program".


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Bruce Perens
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Berkeley CA 94707
510-526-1165
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A portion of this database is derived from the TIGER/Line(R) 1997 data set,
which was created by the Census department of the United States Government.
It was last updated September 1998 by the Census. This version is being
improved on a continuing basis by Bruce Perens and members of the Open
Source(tm) community, both by the correction of the original material, and
by the addition of computer software.