[josm-dev] License clarification for JOSM plugins

[Raphael Mack]

Hi,

Am Montag, 14. April 2008 schrieb Frederik Ramm:
> To me it didn't matter until now; it is the Debian folks with *their*
> guidelines who want to have a very clear understanding, so I am a bit
> reluctant to trawl through SVN to find out the names of everyone who
> has contributed, because that work is of no direct use to *me*, it
> just satisfies the guidelines someone else has introduced for a
> completely different project.

This may be true, and it may be some work to contact the authors. And 
actually, it would be much easier, if the authors would aready be 
mentioned in each file. But how many are there actually? I think that each 
one who has or had svn access is enough, and these should not be that 
much. I personally think it is a good idea to have clarity about 
copyright, authors of each file and licensing. - Even though I think 
actual, working code is ways more important.

Personally I'd interpret a notice "GPL" without versioning information the 
current version of the license, even if a older version of the license 
text is around.

> Nothing against you personally, I'm sure you only mean well for the
> Debian community *and* the OSM community by including our software in
> Debian.

And I think it would be nice, to have josm directly in debian.

Cheers,
Rapha