[OSM-talk] OSM composer not open source?

jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Sat May 1 16:07:01 BST 2010


Yes,
my point was a bit to much, of course I wont decompile and publish the
"source".
but the essence of my question is, without a license, what is the
terms of usage of such a software? It is unclear. That is what is
worrying me.
mike

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:50 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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