[mkgmap-dev] License text

Thu Nov 24 11:58:13 GMT 2011

On 24/11/11 06:56, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> coming back to this very old topic ...
>
> On Sat, Mar 05, Ralf Kleineisel wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to change the license info which is embedded in the IMG
>> header?
>>
>> Now it reads "OSM Street map http://www.openstreetmap.org/ Map data
>> licenced under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/", but this is not correct
>> when making maps from other data sources.
>
> The last time I had to program in Java is now 15 years ago, and I still
> don't like it. C is so much easier, that's while all important projects
> like linux kernel and glibc are written in it ;)

I am a long time C programmer, but I've always thought that
java is a rather good C-like language. Much better than C++
anyway.

> As next I would look at the above license text. Is this text somewhere
> shown? I couldn't find any place, even if you can find it in the image.

As well as being placed into the .img, all copyright messages are
collected, de-duplicated and placed into the .tdb file. You can
display all those copyright information in mapsource via
help->about->product info.

The tdb file is not in the gmapsupp.img file though, so the boot up
message can only come from one of the .img files, probably the first?
Not certain what exactly it uses.

Really the .osm and .pbf files should contain the copyright information,
(like .mp file do), and I do hope this happens before the switch to the 
odbl.

So I'd like to apply your patch but change the option wording to
'specify a copyright message for files that do not contain one'
or something like that.

..Steve