Re: Aw: Re: jmapviewer: bing logo
Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> writes:
> On 10/16/2014 07:22 AM, Felix Natter wrote:
>> hi Ian,
>> Sorry but I've worked ~2 years on the freeplane package for it to be in jessie/main,
>> und we're ~2 weeks from the jessie freeze, so if including the logo is DFSG
>> compliant then that is enough for me.
>> => So I see two options:
>> 1. I get a positive reply from Microsoft soon --> I will include the image.
>> 2. I will remove the logo and tilesource/BingAerialTileSource.java
>> <http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/viewer/jmapviewer/src/org/openstreetmap/gui/jmapviewer/tilesources/BingAerialTileSource.java>
>> from the jmapviewer package,
>> and apply a patch to josm so that it works without it
>> (@Sebastiaan or another GIS member: could you help me with this?
>> I think we can already prepare this!)
hello Sebastiaan,
> In the context of freeplane removing the Bing support entirely from
> jmapviewer is probably the best solution to keep freeplane and its
> dependencies in main.
>
> I'm not sure how important the Bing support is for freeplane users,
> but
Freeplane uses only basic functionality, no other tilesources.
> for JOSM users is pretty much essential. I've avoided contributing to
> JOSM packaging because it's such a fast moving piece of software which
> tends to break ofter with new java dependencies, etc. I'm skeptical of
> how useful JOSM is Debian stable release is, the OSM wiki suggests to
> use the josm package for its desktop file and overwriting josm.jar with
> a more recent josm-tested.jar that they generally recommend to use.
I will reply to Andreas concerning this.
> If we cannot get around disabling the Bing support because of the
> license issues around the logo, I think we should remove the josm
> package forcing users to download josm-tested.jar. I've used the josm
> package on unstable for a while, but have since switched to using
> josm-tested.jar instead because even in unstable JOSM is hard to support
> and keep current.
>
> I'm not sure how much I can help you patching JOSM to deal with the Bing
> removal, but I'm willing to help in any way I can.
Thank you, that is much appreciated!
Best Regards,
--
Felix Natter
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