| 1 | JOSM License |
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| 2 | ============ |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | JOSM, and all its integral parts, are released under the GNU General |
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| 5 | Public License. |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | Earlier contributions to JOSM did not specifiy a version of that license, |
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| 8 | but the license included in the distribution was version 2. |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | All contributions made on or after 15 April 2008 are explicitly "GPL |
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| 11 | v2 or later". |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | This is valid for all files released in the JOSM subversion tree, even |
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| 14 | if they do not carry their own copyright or license information. |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | According to the current JOSM maintainer, it is safe to assume that all |
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| 17 | previous contributions are also "GPL v2 or later", but an effort will |
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| 18 | be made to contact the past contributors to have full clarity. |
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| 20 | The GPL v3 is accessible here: |
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| 21 | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | The GPL v2 is accessible here: |
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| 24 | http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | Note: This is not valid for JOSM plugins. These are not considered |
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| 27 | an integral part of JOSM and may be under any license. |
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| 30 | Copyright and Contributors |
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| 31 | ========================== |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | JOSM was written by Immanuel Scholz <imi AT eigenheimstrasse.de>. |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | Major code contributions from (in alphabetical order): |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | David Earl <david AT frankieandshadow.com> |
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| 38 | Gabriel Ebner <ge AT gabrielebner.at> |
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| 39 | Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping AT web.de> |
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| 40 | Raphael Mack <ramack AT raphael-mack.de> |
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| 41 | Frederik Ramm <frederik AT remote.org> |
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| 42 | Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap AT dstoecker.de> |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | Please add your name liberally if you think you have made a major |
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| 45 | contribution (or add names of others who have). |
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| 47 | Many minor contributions and patches by others; see SVN history |
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| 48 | at http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/ for details. |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | The current JOSM maintainer is Dirk Stöcker. |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | Copyright rests with the contributors. |
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