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

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi,
As I indeed think OSM should be clear and as correct as possible, and as
I don't know if Richard will open that issue, I opened an Issue [1]
myself on github quoting his mail.

I fear I'm not able to decide about the license, so I don't want to
patch it in myself.

regards
Peter

[1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/879

Am 27.01.2015 um 10:20 schrieb 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
> 
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