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<p>Hi all: declaring motion passed with the following votes:</p>
<p> - 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 +1<br>
- Nick Bearman +1<br>
- Regina Obe +1<br>
- Steve Lime<br>
- Tom Kralidis +1</p>
<p>7 votes in favour.</p>
<p dir="auto">I have now added qfield as an OSGeo Community Project
on the website: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.osgeo.org/projects/qfield/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.osgeo.org/projects/qfield/</a> and
closed the gitea issue: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/projects-support/issues/9">#9</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Welcome to OSGeo QField!</p>
<p>Best wishes,<br>
Nick.</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">On May 7, 2026, at 07:08, Nick Bearman
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<p>So far, just one more vote. Thanks Mike!</p>
<p>current status: +6<br>
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- 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 +1<br>
- Nick Bearman +1<br>
- Regina Obe +1<br>
- Steve Lime<br>
- Tom Kralidis</p>
<p>Happy to leave this open for another week (to 14th May).<br>
<br>
Please vote!<br>
<br>
As a reminder, Voting consists of +1 (approval), +0
(slight agreement), -0 (slight disagreement), -1
(against).<br>
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More details at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Committee_Operation"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Committee_Operation</a>.</p>
<p>Best wishes,<br>
Nck.</p>
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<b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 8:43 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Incubator] motion: qfield
recommendation for osgeo community project
initiative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Hi all: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Apologies, I made an administrative error with the
previous motion, including votes for Michael, Steve
and Tom which were actually for POLAR. <o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a
href="https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/projects-support/issues/9"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Best wishes,<br>
Nick.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 26/03/2026 15:50, Nick Bearman
via Incubator wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>So far we have 1 votes. Probably because I put a
lot of preamble before the voting, sorry!<o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Therefore I propose to make a motion to accept
QField as an OSGeo Community Project<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The motion is held open for two weeks until
Thursday 2 April and<br>
requires at least 50% quorum from the following
Committee Members:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><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 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 19/03/2026 16:02, Nick
Bearman via Incubator wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>All of the links and details are still valid.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>From 9th May 2023 <a
href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2023-May/004656.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2023-May/004656.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>This motion did not pass in the allocated time.
I would like to ask<br>
another volunteer to review.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We had one question come up during voting on
license compatibility that is<br>
interesting but may not be suitable for public
discussion.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Jody<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>The licensing question was: <a
href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2023-April/004648.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2023-April/004648.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The license for qgis is GPL2, and qfield has
the same license. qfield<br>
appears to contain qgis code. That's all fine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Thus, I don't understand the licensing
situation. My specific<br>
questions:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Is the license for qfield straight GPL2, as the
repo indicates, or<br>
something else?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Does qfield contain qgis code, such that it's a
derived work?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>If so, is qgis straight GPL2?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Is the Android binary under GPL2, with only
Free software as sources?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Is the iOS binary on gitub under GPL2, with
only Free software as<br>
sources?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>How is the iOS binary being distributed in the
Apple app store?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Thanks,<br>
Greg<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>I don't know the details of the licensing
question, or whether this is still valid.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Therefore I propose to make a motion to accept
QField as an OSGeo Community Project<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The motion is held open for two weeks until
Thursday 2 April and<br>
requires at least 50% quorum from the following
Committee Members:<o:p></o:p></p>
<pre><code> - Angelos Tzotsos<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Arnulf Christl<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Brian M Hamlin<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Daniel Morissette<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Dimitris Kotzinos<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Frank Warmerdam<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Jo Cook<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Jody Garnett<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Michael Smith<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Nick Bearman +1<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Regina Obe<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Steve Lime<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<pre><code> - Tom Kralidis<o:p></o:p></code></pre>
<p>I am happy with this, and am starting with a +1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Thanks<br>
Nick.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
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On 4/21/23 20:34, Jody Garnett wrote: <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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>
<a
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moz-do-not-send="true"><https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Step_2:_Join_Community_Projects_Program></a>
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: <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
href="https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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
href="https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/license/"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/license/</a>)
and <br>
source code (<a
href="https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/LICENSE"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/LICENSE</a>).
<br>
<br>
The team has automated check that license is
applied ( <br>
<a
href="https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/scripts/licensecheck.pl"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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
href="https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md</a>),
<br>
collaboration (<a
href="https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pulls?q=is%3Apr"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pulls?q=is%3Apr</a>),
and <br>
code of conduct ( <br>
<a
href="https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md</a>)
all <br>
seem in order. <br>
<br>
-- <br>
Jody Garnett <br>
<br>
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href="mailto:nick@nickbearman.com" moz-do-not-send="true">nick@nickbearman.com</a>
Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to disability or neurodivergence to improve how we interact.
Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern.</pre>
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Nick Bearman
+44 (0) 7717745715
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nick@nickbearman.com">nick@nickbearman.com</a>
Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to disability or neurodivergence to improve how we interact.
Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern.</pre>
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