[OSM-talk] OSM composer not open source?

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Sat May 1 15:50:31 BST 2010


On 1 May 2010 07:30, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
<jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Also, it is being hosted on openstreetmap.de,
> I am going to start to decompile it and recreate the java code from
> the class files. I wonder if they will sue me.
> I don't see any license agreement that says I cannot do it.

While I don't think it's a good thing, and am not a lawyer, afaik
decompilation is on of the rights that copyright takes away by default
(if no license is given), in some countries -- except if it's done for
"interoperability" in which case both us and eu allow it explicitly.

Cheers




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