Hi, As I indeed think OSM should be clear and as correct as possible, and as I don't know if Richard will open that issue, I opened an Issue [1] myself on github quoting his mail.
I fear I'm not able to decide about the license, so I don't want to patch it in myself. regards Peter [1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/879 Am 27.01.2015 um 10:20 schrieb Andy Allan: > On 27 January 2015 at 03:44, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The GPL says that this decision is made and stated with notices in the >> source files, but these source files have no such notices, meaning no >> decision was ever stated. > > Thanks for bringing this to our attention, and you are correct that we > haven't put license information in each of our files. I for one was > unaware that there was this ambiguity, although I'm not a maintainer > of the software, only an occasional committer. > > Since this list is used for a wide range of openstreetmap-related > development projects, not just the code for the website, here are some > more targetted links: > > http://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/ > https://trac.openstreetmap.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=website&order=priority > https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website > >> Can I ask the developers of those files to make a choice, so that it >> can be listed in the source files and finish specifying how they are >> licensed? > > There are approximately 112 developers involved in the whole codebase, > so I hope we won't need to contact each of them! For a number of years > the README has stated: > > "This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License 2.0. > See included LICENSE file for details." > > ... so I expect the answer is that it's v2 only, not v2 and later. In > saying that, we could certainly be more clear in each of the source > files in addition to the README > > Thanks, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
