[josm-dev] JOSMng prototype [resend]

Gervase Markham gerv at gerv.net
Wed Feb 6 22:14:14 GMT 2008


Gabriel Ebner wrote:
> Would it even be possible to rewrite JOSM under a BSD license now?
> I'd thought most of the likely contributors would be too contaminated
> by GPL'd code.

The GPL and other copyright licences protect actual code, not ideas. 
Contributors cannot be "contaminated". Just don't cut and paste.

Having said that, although my voice should not be a loud one as I have 
not made a significant contribution, it seems to me to make most sense 
to put JOSM-NG under the GPL because then there would be no concerns 
about cutting and pasting code, algorithms etc. or reusing resources 
like XML files and images from JOSM.

Gerv




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