[mkgmap-dev] splitter license & copyright

Sat Jan 10 16:03:33 GMT 2015

Hi Bas,

okay, I've used your patches and changed a few places 
where the wrong name or date was used.
Do you think that the sources are ok now?

Gerd

> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 11:36:43 +0100
> From: sebastic at xs4all.nl
> To: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] splitter license & copyright
> 
> Hi Gerd,
> 
> On 01/10/2015 07:17 AM, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> > I must confess that I don't care about the licence as long
> > as I am the author. I'd be happy to hear that someone else
> > can use a copy of my work, also if it is for commercial purposes.
> > If I code an algo that is described somewhere I try to point out the source,
> > and I avoid to copy copyrighted sources as I am not able
> > to understand lawyers speach (neither in English nor in German).
> 
> While the GPL-3 doesn't prevent commercial use, it allows charging money
> for the software (distribution), but also requires that any derivative
> works are licensed under the GPL-3 too. This limits the use of the GPL-3
> code in proprietary software, because if it incorporates GPL-3 code it's
> a derivative work and licensed under the GPL-3 too as soon as it's
> distributed.
> 
> As long as you're the sole copyright holder to a source file, you always
> have the option to license a copy differently for commercial purposes.
> If you're not the sole copyright holder, the other copyright holders
> need to consent to a different license.
> 
> > I do not want to put my full name
> > into the sources because I don't like to find myself with search engines like
> > Google, so I use GerdP instead. 
> > If that is a problem this can be changed, but I'd prefer something like
> > "Copyright (C) 20xx by the splitter contributors"
> > if we have to state a copyright at all.
> 
> I'm not sure why you don't like to find your Free Software contributions
> with search engines. While I also prefer to be an invisible force behind
> the scenes, this is difficult to achieve in Free Software projects that
> operate out in the open. Consistent use of an alias in all your
> communications is about the only way to go, as many do in the Tor and
> wider InfoSec community for example.
> 
> Assigning your copyright to Steve specifically or the splitter
> contributors more generally is an option if your don't wish to be named.
> Although your contributions to mkmap are well known thanks to your list
> activity.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas
> 
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