[Talk-ca] geobase2osm

[Jason Reid]

Richard Degelder wrote:
> Jason,
>
> I looked up your script geobase2osm and noted several things.  The
> README states that this "is not ready for production work yet" which is
> fine.  But at the same time I also noticed that at no point have you
> given a license to the script, neither in the README nor within the
> script itself.  Also, there is not a copyright statement anywhere, and
> you deserve the right to receive credit for your work, nor a way to
> contact you if someone does have some suggestions, or better yet code,
> for improving the script.  
>
> Would you be willing to add a license statement, preferably for an Open
> Source license, to your script?  Doing so will allow others to be able
> to use, and modify if necessary, your script for their work in migrating
> the data from GeoBase to OSM.  It may also encourage others to
> contribute to the script to help you develop it further and to get it
> ready for production use.  Adding some way of contacting you, preferably
> within one of the comment statements within the script, would also be
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Richard Degelder
>
>   
Richard:

I will be adding that information soon. I've got a couple patches that 
people have sent me, including a fairly large one that Steve Singer did 
to fix the reprojection of the data that I will be committing in the 
next few days.

-Jason Reid