[Tile-serving] [OSM-dev] osm2pgsql and mod_tile have moved to git

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Wed Apr 3 19:23:37 UTC 2013


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 April 2013 19:39, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
>
>> Copyright © 2013 OpenStreetMap
>
> This bit needs discussion.  I don't think it's a great idea saying
> just "OpenStreetMap" since there's no such thing that could hold the
> copyright of the code. The foundation doesn't ask for copyright
> assignment in source code, so it couldn't go here either.
>
> What do other projects do in this situation? Just name the maintainer(s)?

I personally don't like naming maintainers, because deciding when to
add or remove people's names is a difficult challenge.  Does a typo
fix count?  How many lines need to be added or removed?  Etc, etc.

What about "mod_tile contributors"?

--
Jeff Ollie



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