Add license declaration

[kubark42]

This is a great repo, but it looks like there's no clear licensing statement. Are the icons in this repo CC? Would it be possible to add the license either as LICENSE.md or in the README.md?

[aAXEe]

Yes this is a problem.
@Nautic Do you know the history of this files? Can we release them under something like CC?

[Skippern]

My contributions are generally PD, @malcolmh might be able to respond better. Active repository have been moved to OpenNauticalChart/josm

[malcolmh]

All the icons that I have added were created by me, so I have no problem with any suitable PD license.

It would be a good idea to delete all the files in this repository & put a redirection to the active one in the README. Before I do that, please re-open this issue in the new repository, so that it can be followed up there.

Does anybody object to this course of action? I will wait one week before proceeding.

[Skippern]

Maybe also remove the links to this repository from http://josm.openstreetmap.de - the files are currently double linked, one version from this repository (not maintained), and one from the new repository

[aAXEe]

Did you look at the last changes? The repo contains a style different from the ONC ones.
So please do not remove any files or links to this.
The style is labeled "​OpenSeaMap: Seamarks according to INT 1 (IHO standarized symbols)". It is used as a style that only changes the seamark symbols and not all other stuff in JOSM.

As you (OpenNauticalChart) decided to init a new repo instead of forking this one, we now have two repos with nearly the same content but incompatibel changes.

[Skippern]

Some of the files was originally worked on in my private repository, before moving here, and I have followed it to ONC. Almost all SVG icons were created by me, and if I am not mistaken, that repo is still in my profile. That means there are 3 copies of a part of this repo, without it being forked. The important is that it is pointed where the active repo is, so that we eliminate the risk of parallel contributions leading the files in different directions.