JOSM License ============ 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. The GPL v3 is accessible here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html The GPL v2 is accessible here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html 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 . Major code contributions from (in alphabetical order): David Earl Gabriel Ebner Ulf Lamping Raphael Mack Frederik Ramm 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. for all earlier contributions as well. Copyright rests with the contributors.