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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi Bas, hi Steve,<br><br>I must confess that I don't care about the licence as long<br>as I am the author. I'd be happy to hear that someone else<br>can use a copy of my work, also if it is for commercial purposes.<br>If I code an algo that is described somewhere I try to point out the source,<br>and I avoid to copy copyrighted sources as I am not able<br>to understand lawyers speach (neither in English nor in German).<br><br>I do not want to put my full name<br>into the sources because I don't like to find myself with search engines like<br>Google, so I use GerdP instead. <br>If that is a problem this can be changed, but I'd prefer something like<br>"Copyright (C) 20xx by the splitter contributors"<br>if we have to state a copyright at all.<br><br>Gerd<br><br><div>Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 16:24:04 +0100<br>From: sebastic@xs4all.nl<br>To: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk<br>Subject: [mkgmap-dev] splitter license & copyright<br><br><pre>Hi all,<br> <br>To follow up on my previous email regarding licensing of Osmosis<br>portions included in the splitter source, there are a few issues with<br>the splitter source itself too.<br> <br> <br>Almost none of the splitter source files declare the author beside the<br>copyright year. All files only declare the copyright year, except:<br> <br>src/uk/me/parabola/splitter/UnknownFeatureException.java:<br> * Copyright (C) 2011 by the splitter contributors<br> <br>src/uk/me/parabola/splitter/Version.java:<br> * Copyright (C) 2007 Steve Ratcliffe<br> <br>The mkgmap source has this issue too, but to a much lesser extend. Most<br>of those files declare the year and Steve as the author.<br> <br>Based on the svn log of the files which only declare the copyright year,<br>the authors should be as in the attrached splitter-copyright.patch.<br> <br>For each file the the author of the first SVN revision was assumed to<br>also be the author of the source file. This may be false assumption when<br>files are renamed, refactored, or committed by someone else. The svn<br>usernames were mapped to the authors of related emails to the mkgmap-dev<br>list.<br> <br> <br>A second issue with the splitter source files are is that some are<br>lacking a license header, and Version.java being licensed under the<br>GPL-2 only instead of "GPL-2 or GPL-3", or just GPL-3, which is<br>inconsistent with doc/LICENSE.readme that places the code of the project<br>under the GPL-3.<br> <br>The splitter.licenses attachment documents the license for each of the<br>splitter source files.<br> <br>The splitter-license.patch adds the missing license headers using GPL-3<br>and the copyright year and author based on the svn log like the<br>copyright patch. It has the same caveat as the copyright patch, the<br>first svn committer may not always be the copyright holder of the file<br>in question.<br> <br>The splitter-license.patch also bumps the GPL version from 2 to 3 for<br>Version.java. Using "GPL-2 or GPL-3" like Gerd does for many of his<br>contributions may be more suitable.<br> <br>Because the GPL license headers don't include the "or (at your option)<br>any later version" option, the copyright holders of the unlicensed and<br>GPL-2 licensed files need to agree with relicensing their contributions<br>under the GPL-3.<br> <br>Kind Regards,<br> <br>Bas<br> <br>-- <br> GPG Key ID: 4096R/E88D4AF1<br>Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1<br> <br></pre><br>_______________________________________________
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