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From: Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont@...>
Date: Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Subject: OpenStreetMap.js redistribution
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-talk@...>

Hi,
I just found this thread
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-August/052632.html stating the license of the file is AGPL
here stating it is GPL http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-August/052633.html

The file is in the osm rails git which is supposedly GPL, but lacking the GNU standard COPYING or copy of the license, and it is lacking any copyright terms in the header.
which are of course all optional,
rails/public/openlayers/OpenStreetMap.js
http://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/blob/HEAD:/public/openlayers/OpenStreetMap.js

but here it is being used in an LGPL environment and I wonder if that is Kosher?
so, thus the GPL code is being redistributed without marking, without warning in an LGPLed project and it is also not clearly marked
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/blob/81041c50a94c1e73e177a7b7a1a9687c2d235f1c/media/js/OpenStreetMap.js

Also in the openlayers example code this is included:
http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/browser/trunk/openlayers/tests/manual/geojson-geomcoll-reprojection.html?rev=9181
openlayers/tests/manual/geojson-geomcoll-reprojection.html: <script src="http://www.openstreetmap.org/openlayers/OpenStreetMap.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

Now I am not an expert on javascript licensing, does that mean I can include gpled javascript in any webpage that I want without affecting the license or having to declare where I got it?

thanks,
mike
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James Michael DuPont
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