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The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
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License for Javascript Code #879

Open jongleur1983 opened 9 years ago

jongleur1983 commented 9 years ago

Richard Stallman asked on osm-dev on Jan, 16th, 2015 and on Jan 27th, 2015:

The license for the Javascript code of web site is incompletely specified. The directory contains a copy of GNU GPL version 2, which lists two licensing options for the code.

  • GPL version 2 or later, which is what we recommend as it is compatible with GPL version 3.
  • GPL version 2 only.

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.

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?

Andy pointed him to this git project (and others already), but I'm not sure if that's forcing an issue creation here.

danstowell commented 9 years ago

Question: Is the issue specific to JS? I don't see any GPL mentions in the ruby files either. The main readme says GPL version 2 ("2" not "2+" and I assume that's deliberate!), and I presume the readme applies just as strongly/weakly to the ruby as to the JS.

gravitystorm commented 9 years ago

It's not JS specific.

bhousel commented 9 years ago

context: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html