Changeset 1802 in josm for trunk/LICENSE

Timestamp:

2009-07-17T20:53:35+02:00 (15 years ago)

Author:

stoecker

Message:

cleanup license and contributions a bit

File:

• trunk/LICENSE (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/LICENSE

@@ -3 +3 @@
 
 JOSM, and all its integral parts, are released under the GNU General 
-Public License.
-
-Earlier contributions to JOSM did not specifiy a version of that license,
-but the license included in the distribution was version 2. 
-
-All contributions made on or after 15 April 2008 are explicitly "GPL 
-v2 or later".
-
-This is valid for all files released in the JOSM subversion tree, even
-if they do not carry their own copyright or license information.
-
-According to the current JOSM maintainer, it is safe to assume that all
-previous contributions are also "GPL v2 or later", but an effort will 
-be made to contact the past contributors to have full clarity.
+Public License v2 or later.
 
 The GPL v3 is accessible here:
@@ -24 +11 @@
 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 
+When compiled with Bzip2 support code included the whole software is licensed
+GPL v3 or later.
+
+
+
 Note: This is not valid for JOSM plugins. These are not considered
 an integral part of JOSM and may be under any license.
-
-
-Copyright and Contributors
-==========================
-
-JOSM was written by Immanuel Scholz <imi AT eigenheimstrasse.de>.
-
-Major code contributions from (in alphabetical order):
-
-David Earl <david AT frankieandshadow.com>
-Gabriel Ebner <ge AT gabrielebner.at>
-Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping AT web.de>
-Raphael Mack <ramack AT raphael-mack.de>
-Frederik Ramm <frederik AT remote.org>
-Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap AT dstoecker.de>
-
-Please add your name liberally if you think you have made a major
-contribution (or add names of others who have).
-
-Many minor contributions and patches by others; see SVN history
-at http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/ for details.
-
-The current JOSM maintainer is Dirk Stöcker.
-
-Copyright rests with the contributors.
-