Felix Hartmann <extremecarver@gmail.com> writes:
Am I right, that If I want to offer mkgmap.jar unchanged for download (well zipped) I can do this, as long as I include the LICENSE file?
I want to add a script to my maps, that automatically downloads mkgmap.jar if not found, for gmapsupp.img creation. So for right now, I put mkgmap.jar plus license file onto my server (http://openmtmbmap.org/mkgmap.zip)
IANAL and TINLA :-) The license is GPLv2. So you may distribute binaries (which I see a jar as) if you either also distribute the source make a written offer to distribute the source The conventional wisdom is that the written offer clause is best avoided (as carrying obligations into the future). So the easy thing is to put a source .tar.gz (from which the binary jar was built) on the site as well, which very clearly satisfies your obligations, even if people choose to ignore it (see last paragraph below). For reference, here are the relevant bits of section 3: 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, c) - omitted, not relevant - If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.