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<p>Hi all: </p>
<p>Apologies, I made an administrative error with the previous
motion, including votes for Michael, Steve and Tom which were
actually for POLAR. </p>
<p>So I will extend this this motion, I suggest by a week for
Michael, Steve and Tom (and anyone else who wishes to) to vote. </p>
<p>current status:<br>
<br>
- Angelos Tzotsos +1<br>
- Arnulf Christl +1<br>
- Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques<br>
- Brian M Hamlin<br>
- Daniel Morissette +1<br>
- Dimitris Kotzinos<br>
- Frank Warmerdam<br>
- Jo Cook<br>
- Jody Garnett<br>
- Michael Smith<br>
- Nick Bearman +1<br>
- Regina Obe +1<br>
- Steve Lime<br>
- Tom Kralidis</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/projects-support/issues/9">https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/projects-support/issues/9</a><br>
<br>
I will be away at the deadline (9th April) and not returning to
this type of work until 30th April. So if someone else wants to
pick up the bat, please do. Otherwise I will work on this at the
end of April. </p>
<p>Best wishes,<br>
Nick.</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/03/2026 15:50, Nick Bearman via
Incubator wrote:<br>
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<p>So far we have 1 votes. Probably because I put a lot of
preamble before the voting, sorry!</p>
<p>We need 7 to pass, so please vote before the deadline, Thurs
2nd April. <br>
<br>
Or ask questions if you have any! <br>
<br>
Thanks, <br>
Nick. </p>
<p dir="auto">Therefore I propose to make a motion to accept
QField as an OSGeo Community Project</p>
<p dir="auto">The motion is held open for two weeks until Thursday
2 April and<br>
requires at least 50% quorum from the following Committee
Members:</p>
<p><br>
- Angelos Tzotsos <br>
- Arnulf Christl <br>
- Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques <br>
- Brian M Hamlin <br>
- Daniel Morissette <br>
- Dimitris Kotzinos <br>
- Frank Warmerdam <br>
- Jo Cook <br>
- Jody Garnett <br>
- Michael Smith +1 <br>
- Nick Bearman +1 <br>
- Regina Obe <br>
- Steve Lime +1 <br>
- Tom Kralidis +1 <br>
<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/03/2026 16:02, Nick Bearman via
Incubator wrote:<br>
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<p dir="auto">All of the links and details are still valid.</p>
<p dir="auto">From 9th May 2023 <a
href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2023-May/004656.html"
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<p dir="auto">This motion did not pass in the allocated time.
I would like to ask<br>
another volunteer to review.</p>
<p dir="auto">We had one question come up during voting on
license compatibility that is<br>
interesting but may not be suitable for public discussion.</p>
<p dir="auto">Jody</p>
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<p dir="auto">The licensing question was: <a
href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2023-April/004648.html"
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<p dir="auto">I don't get to vote, but I have had a question
about qfield for a long<br>
time that I have never seen an answer for. I am 99% sure I
have asked<br>
about it on one of the qgis lists in the past.</p>
<p dir="auto">The license for qgis is GPL2, and qfield has the
same license. qfield<br>
appears to contain qgis code. That's all fine.</p>
<p dir="auto">The android app is distributed under GPL2
presumably, but I don't see<br>
that mentioned in the google play store. That's a minor
issue and<br>
easily fixed, assuming that there aren't proprietary android
libraries<br>
(e.g. Google Play services) bundled in.</p>
<p dir="auto">The iOS app is presumably also GPL2, but as I
understand it, that's not<br>
allowed in the apple app store, and the Apple app store's
terms prohibit<br>
redistribution of the app one obtains, which is incompatible
with GPL2.<br>
Often software that was Free before it goes into the Apple
app store has<br>
a special license from the copyright holders to be able to
be<br>
distributed under the non-Free license required by Apple.
But with code<br>
from qgis -- since it has no such exception -- I don't
understand how<br>
this is working.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thus, I don't understand the licensing
situation. My specific<br>
questions:</p>
<p dir="auto">Is the license for qfield straight GPL2, as the
repo indicates, or<br>
something else?</p>
<p dir="auto">Does qfield contain qgis code, such that it's a
derived work?</p>
<p dir="auto">If so, is qgis straight GPL2?</p>
<p dir="auto">Is the Android binary under GPL2, with only Free
software as sources?</p>
<p dir="auto">Is the iOS binary on gitub under GPL2, with only
Free software as<br>
sources?</p>
<p dir="auto">How is the iOS binary being distributed in the
Apple app store?</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks,<br>
Greg</p>
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<p dir="auto">I don't know the details of the licensing
question, or whether this is still valid.</p>
<p dir="auto">Therefore I propose to make a motion to accept
QField as an OSGeo Community Project</p>
<p dir="auto">The motion is held open for two weeks until
Thursday 2 April and<br>
requires at least 50% quorum from the following Committee
Members:</p>
<pre><code> - Angelos Tzotsos
- Arnulf Christl
- Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
- Brian M Hamlin
- Daniel Morissette
- Dimitris Kotzinos
- Frank Warmerdam
- Jo Cook
- Jody Garnett
- Michael Smith
- Nick Bearman +1
- Regina Obe
- Steve Lime
- Tom Kralidis
</code></pre>
<p dir="auto">I am happy with this, and am starting with a +1</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks<br>
Nick.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/01/2026 17:46, Angelos
Tzotsos via Incubator wrote:<br>
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On 4/21/23 20:34, Jody Garnett wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">I would like to make a motion: <br>
Recommending QField for the osgeo community project
program. <br>
<br>
The motion is held open for two weeks, until May 5th 2023. <br>
<br>
- Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques <br>
- Arnulf Christl <br>
- Jo Cook <br>
- Jody Garnett +1 (initial motion) <br>
- Dimitris Kotzinos <br>
- Tom Kralidis <br>
- Michael Smith <br>
- Steve Lime <br>
- Daniel Morissette <br>
- Frank Warmerdam <br>
- Angelos Tzotsos <br>
<br>
<br>
Checking the project against our requirements <br>
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href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Step_2:_Join_Community_Projects_Program"
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<br>
: <br>
<br>
1. Be geospatial <br>
- Confirm by checking README or project description <br>
- project page on the osgeo website <br>
- We ask projects have some user documentation, for example
an OSGeo Live <br>
quickstart <br>
<br>
Most of this was checked for website requirements. There is
nice user <br>
documentation (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/</a>).
<br>
<br>
<br>
2. Have a free license or an open source license. <br>
- The license must be OSI approved <br>
- We ask that the project team check the file headers and
double check the <br>
license has been appropriately applied <br>
<br>
GPL2 is provided in docs (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/license/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/license/</a>)
and <br>
source code (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/LICENSE"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/LICENSE</a>).
<br>
<br>
The team has automated check that license is applied ( <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/scripts/licensecheck.pl"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/scripts/licensecheck.pl</a>)
<br>
which is really cool. <br>
<br>
3. Welcome participation and new contributors. <br>
- We look for a clear contribution policy <br>
- We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps
with a history <br>
of bug report or pull requests <br>
- Projects are required to have a code of conduct <br>
<br>
Contribution policy ( <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md</a>),
<br>
collaboration (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pulls?q=is%3Apr"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pulls?q=is%3Apr</a>),
and <br>
code of conduct ( <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md</a>)
all <br>
seem in order. <br>
<br>
-- <br>
Jody Garnett <br>
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