| 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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| 19 |
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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@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@frankieandshadow.com>
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| 38 | Gabriel Ebner <ge@gabrielebner.at>
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| 39 | Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@web.de>
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| 40 | Raphael Mack <ramack@raphael-mack.de>
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| 41 | Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | Please add your name liberally if you think you have made a major
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| 44 | contribution (or add names of others who have).
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| 46 | Many minor contributions and patches by others; see SVN history
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| 47 | at http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/ for details.
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| 48 |
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| 49 | Copyright rests with the contributors.
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