[josm-dev] License clarification for JOSM plugins

[Andreas Putzo]

Hi,

On Apr 15  16:26, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> copyright status clearly expressed. The only last thing that I'd like
> to point out is that
> src/org/openstreetmap/josm/io/MultiPartFormOutputStream.java isn't and
> can't be GPL (is copyrighted from Sun).

is this file really copyrighted by Sun? It starts with

| Taken from forum.java.sun.com

The first result on google points to a post published by 
'bsampieri' on Oct 3, 2003.

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=451245&forumID=31

where the license header is missing.

Instead, below the code is the following notice:

| Useful Code of the Day" is supplied by the person who posted this
| message. This code is not guaranteed by any warranty whatsoever. The
| code is free to use and modify as you see fit. The code was tested and
| worked for the author. If anyone else has some useful code, feel free to
| post it under this heading.

If it's taken from there i'd think that it has been put into the public
domain.


Regards,
Andreas