[OSM-dev] libosmpbf

[Jochen Topf]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:03:00PM +0200, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote:
> On 14.04.2011, at 12:10, Jochen Topf wrote:
> > To make the PBF stuff from Scott easier to use from C++ I have added a Makefile
> > and Debian config in my fork at https://github.com/joto/OSM-binary . This gives
> > you a /usr/lib/libosmpbf.a and the include files in /usr/include/osmpbf. If you
> > use Debian/Ubuntu you can have it all in a libosmpbf-dev package.
> 
> 
> I see that you changed the license of the proto files to LGPL. I already mailed Scott a few weeks ago about the license and asked him if he could remove the GPL header since IMO it doesn't make sense to use a copyleft license in a proto buf file. First, it is not software but a data format description that get transformed into code and second, it is a specification which should be licensed more liberal. I would prefer CC0.

Scott had already changed it to LGPL. I just changed two places that still said
GPL to make it consistent.

I agree that thats probably something that should have been released into the
public domain, but LGPL is fine with me, it doesn't really have any restrictions.

> Did you talked with Scott about the license?

No.

Jochen
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