[Qgis-developer] Possible plugin licensing problems

[Tim Sutton]

Hi



> On 26 May 2016, at 08:07, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm unsure this is acceptable for us:
> ===
> Please know that this Plugin is for own use purpose/evaluation but not
> for commercial. If you need it for commercial purpose please contact
> ***, and I will refer you to our marketing team to buy the commercial
> *** key. At the same time, the non-commercial also has limitation on
> number of calls and points.
> ===

Is the plugin available as Open Source / GPL? If it is there is actually no reason (even if it is not very sympathetic with our community norms and values) that I can think of why a company can’t do this. Though I guess circumventing their key restriction would then be trivia?

Regards

Tim

> Opinions?
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
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Tim Sutton
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