Hi, > The provided JOSM license text LICENSE states V2 and unless all JOSM and > Plugin files clearly states "GPLv2 or later" somewhere (which they don't > do AFAIK), there's no legal way IMHO to provide JOSM under GPLv3 - as > the license versions are not compatible.
Do I understand this correctly: Software can only be included in Debian if it is "GPL v2 or later", and "GPL v2 only" is not enough? I'm generally open to clarifying the license to be "GPL v2 or later", but I have a sort of philosophical problem with it. Debian is one distribution of many. Why should *we* do a lot of work so that *they* have the GPL v3 clean distribution *they* want? What if they decide tomorrow that they'd rather have "GPL v2 only", or what if another distribution of similar importance says they only include software that uses 8.3 naming convention or something... do we then make these changes as well? Generally, the OSM spirit is: We do what we want, and if somebody wants to use our data, they're free to work with it. If somebody comes in and says "but I can't use your data because you have UTF-8 in your tags" then we say "tough luck, live with it or find another project". Is Debian important enough to deviate from the way we usually do things? Does it warrant an exception? Or is it just a bunch of guys overestimating their importance? We can still make our software available to Debian users through a repository of our own... do we want to jump through the hoops they put up? Bye Frederik (written on a Debian system) -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/josm-dev
