Hi all! Since about the start of June JOSM gets compiled with some pieces of code coming from the ANT codebase, which are copyrighted by the Apache Foundation and are distributed under an Apache 2.0 license. Unfortunately this license is not compatible with GPL-2[1], so these two licenses cannot mixed up like what you are currently doing with JOSM. I don't know whether the ANT project or the Apache Foundation would sue you for this (and I'm not tied at all with them, nor speak on their behalf), but, for what I understand, compiling JOSM is illegal.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License#GPL_compatibility Fortunately GPL-3 is not incompatible with Apache-2.0, so I think you could upgrade all your code to GPL-3 and avoid any problem. This, for instance, would enable me to package and upload latest JOSM release to Debian. Thank you, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani <[email protected]> Pisa, Italy Web: http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~mascellani Jabber: [email protected] / [email protected] GPG: 0x5F1FBF70 (FP: 1EB6 3D43 E201 4DDF 67BD 003F FCB0 BB5C 5F1F BF70)
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