On 05.09.2010 16:12, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
On 02/09/10 21:13, Felix Hartmann wrote:
As far as I understand, as soon as I offer mkgmap.jar to download somewhere, or include it somewhere, I have to host/supply the sourcecode too (forever - or whatever forever means), or am I wrong?
You certainly don't have to host it forever. You only have to allow people access to the source at the time they access the binary. If they don't take the oportunity to download it they can't come back in 20 years and demand it then or anything like that.
I have no problems putting a mkgmap.jar standalone file for the intended use (recreating address index / overview map for existing .img maps) on my own (sponsored) server - but cannot fully grasp what I have to do to achieve this. The mkgmap-latest download is not really nice, because it
There is no problem with extracting the jar file and hosting that. Strictly speaking you should also put the mkgmap-latest-src.tar.gz there as well or an archive of the actual source that was used to build the jar.
If you just place the corresponding source along side the mkgmap.jar file on your server and let interested people know somehow that it is there that is enough.
But if the source is unaltered from that on mkgmap.org.uk and you just link there I am not going to mind. Well linking is not practical, because as said, mkgmap-latest.tar.gz includes much stuff different from the plain mkgmap.jar. So unpacking via bash/batch is more complicated (subfolder and other stuff).
..Steve