Please use license GPL v2 or later in plugin validator

[mascellani@…]

Hi.

I am a maintainer of the josm-plugins package in Debian. I would like to
include your plugin in our package, but there are some legal reasons.

You do not specify any license for your plugin, just include the GPL-2
text. Moreover, in the plugins there are files under an Apache-2.0
license, which is _not_ GPL-2 compatible (but it is GPL-3 compatible[1]).

[1] ​http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2

The result is that the compiled binary is not distributable (because
there is no legal way to put Apache-2.0 and GPL-2 together). Could you
please add a file in the pluin repository, stating that the plugin is
distributed under a GPL-2 _or later_ license? This would enable the
users (and Debian) to use your precious plugin under a GPL-3+ license.

Francisco Santos and Gabriel Ebner (contributor to the plugin) already
agreed to use GPL v2 or later.

Giovanni Mascellani

[anonymous]

Sorry, copy and paste made me forget to specify that I'm talking of the validator plugin.

Of course, making clear copyright and licensing status is a good thing for all the plugins! :-)

[bastiK]

Hi Giovanni,

If you can identify the developers with substantial contributions to this plugin, I'm sure we can resolve this quickly.

[mascellani@…]

Replying to bastiK:

Hi Giovanni,

If you can identify the developers with substantial contributions to this plugin, I'm sure we can resolve this quickly.

Hi, thank you very much for the answer.

The CONTRIBUTION file lists Francisco R. Santos <frsantos@…>, Gabriel Ebner <ge@…>
and Joerg Ostertag <openstreetmap@…>, but could be out-of-date.

Searching for SVN commits:

$ svn log | grep '^r[0-9][0-9]*' | cut -d'|' -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
      1  avar 
      1  bastik 
      1  imi 
      1  jrreid 
      1  ulf 
      2  daeron 
      2  pieren 
      2  twalraet 
      3  dmuecke 
      4  dhansen 
      7  joerg 
      8  frederik 
      8  skela 
     11  stotz 
     15  jttt 
     22  gabriel 
     24  guggis 
     54  frsantos 
    100  stoecker

(given from inside the validator directory)

Can this help?

Giovanni.

[bastiK]

OK, I got the consent of the remaining authors and updated the license inforation. (See ​[o20828].)

[mascellani@…]

Thank you very much. Giovanni.