License of JOSM sheenshots

[Eric Ladner]

Yeah, that's over the top lawyer-ey BS if you ask me.  I doubt you could
get sued for having a windows title bar in your screen shot.

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 9:31 AM Peter Gervai <grinapo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 2:45 PM Mateusz Konieczny via josm-dev
> <josm-dev at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> > What is the license of JOSM screenshots?
>
> Depends on how anal do you want to be. ;-) ['Am Not A Lawyer]
>
> JOSM is GPLv2+ so by the lax (and recommended) interpretation
> everything from JOSM is GPL, everything in JOSM is ODbL, and you try
> not to include non-free operating system widgets.
>
> If you want to do it full lawyery then you examine everything from
> fonts to icons, collect their separate licenses, and determine which
> is incompatible, and which are free, and you
> start cutting and masking the image. ;-)
>
> > I created
> >
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:JOSM_screenshot_without_imagery
> > (and plan to create matching template where background needs extra
> license)
>
> Looks ok but you probably didn't mean "imagery in **a** background".
> Was the intent "without the operating system environment and widgets"?
>
> My opinion.
> g
>
>

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Eric Ladner