[OSM-dev] License for Javascript code [repeat]

[Andy Allan]

On 27 January 2015 at 03:44, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:

> The GPL says that this decision is made and stated with notices in the
> source files, but these source files have no such notices, meaning no
> decision was ever stated.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, and you are correct that we
haven't put license information in each of our files. I for one was
unaware that there was this ambiguity, although I'm not a maintainer
of the software, only an occasional committer.

Since this list is used for a wide range of openstreetmap-related
development projects, not just the code for the website, here are some
more targetted links:

http://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/
https://trac.openstreetmap.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=website&order=priority
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website

> Can I ask the developers of those files to make a choice, so that it
> can be listed in the source files and finish specifying how they are
> licensed?

There are approximately 112 developers involved in the whole codebase,
so I hope we won't need to contact each of them! For a number of years
the README has stated:

"This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License 2.0.
See included LICENSE file for details."

... so I expect the answer is that it's v2 only, not v2 and later. In
saying that, we could certainly be more clear in each of the source
files in addition to the README

Thanks,
Andy