On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:03:00PM +0200, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote: > On 14.04.2011, at 12:10, Jochen Topf wrote: > > To make the PBF stuff from Scott easier to use from C++ I have added a > > Makefile > > and Debian config in my fork at https://github.com/joto/OSM-binary . This > > gives > > you a /usr/lib/libosmpbf.a and the include files in /usr/include/osmpbf. If > > you > > use Debian/Ubuntu you can have it all in a libosmpbf-dev package. > > > I see that you changed the license of the proto files to LGPL. I already > mailed Scott a few weeks ago about the license and asked him if he could > remove the GPL header since IMO it doesn't make sense to use a copyleft > license in a proto buf file. First, it is not software but a data format > description that get transformed into code and second, it is a specification > which should be licensed more liberal. I would prefer CC0.
Scott had already changed it to LGPL. I just changed two places that still said GPL to make it consistent. I agree that thats probably something that should have been released into the public domain, but LGPL is fine with me, it doesn't really have any restrictions. > Did you talked with Scott about the license? No. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
