Igor Brejc schrieb: > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Ulf Lamping <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Would be nice if Kosmos would use the > same icons for the same things as JOSM does. > > P.S: I still consider Kosmos to be closed source, so be careful to > include any none PD icons into Kosmos! > > Kosmos distribution itself does not contain any map icons, it > downloads images from URLs you specify in rendering rules. Ah, ok, then Kosmos shouldn't have a direct licensing issue with it. JOSM includes these icons in it's jar, so I just assumed that Kosmos is doing it the same way. > Currently icons which are used all come from OSM wiki, so I guess it > shouldn't be a problem to synchronize with JOSM. Yes, would be nice to synchronize the icons with JOSM.
Your way with using URLs has a drawback, as it adds a dependency to the OSM Wiki. When the Wiki is down (or the URL moves or so) the rendering will missing the icons. However, might be a hypothetical issue ;-) > I don't know what are licensing constraints when you download images > from internet and display them on maps. Copyright constraints? You as the program author should have an answer if someone asks you: "I'm using the Kosmos defaults to render an OSM map of XY. As Kosmos is licensed under GPL/Apache/BSD/... license, and OSM is CC-by-SA-2.0 what is the license of the resulting map?". To my understanding, the resulting map will be CC-by-SA-2.0. That means that you shouldn't use any license incompatible icons here. > I guess it's the matter for the user, not the program itself. Obviously, it's not very practical if every user would have to find the icons on the internet to draw a common map. So Kosmos should come with defaults, so it can draw all required icons onto the maps (whatever such a "default set" of icons may include or not is up to you). As Kosmos is working with OSM data directly (and not using slippymap output), as a user I would expect that the icons are coming with the program and therefore are under the programs license or are specially noted if they have a different license. In contrast to this, if a user wants to extend this default and add his own icons (e.g. because he wants to draw a special purpose map), he's obviously responsible about copyright issues of such "private icons" himself. > > I will publish the Kosmos source as I promised. It will come together > with the next release, probably within days. Great! Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
