[josm-dev] License for tracer2

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Dirk Brünig wrote:

> a wile ago I start to enhance the plugin tracer. And now it is time to make 
> it available for all josm user. Since the new tracer2 use some code from 
> tracer (plugin and server). I won't to know witch license I have to use.
>
> The tracer plugin is under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2 can I put the 
> new tracer2 under Version 3 ?

This depends on the exact license conditions. The text in the osm SVN 
states "under GPL". This usually means "verion 1 or any later one". As 
license version two is included I'd assume "version 2 and any later one is 
meant".

> The server I check out from
> http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/osm-tracer
> There is also an License file. But it is in written in Czech.
> Program lze bez omezení použít pro pøípravu dat do projektu
> OpenStreetMap. Program lze bez omezení šíøit a mìnit s tím, že bude
> zachována a pøiložena tato licence. Program ale nelze použít pro
> pøípravu dat, které by byly komerènì využity, aniž by pøed tímto
> využitím byly uploadovány do projektu OpenStreetMap pod licencí,
> kterou OSM vyžaduje.
> Can I use code from the server and put it under a GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.

This text seems incompatible with GPL.

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