<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi all QGIS developers,<br><br></div>I'm submitting a new plugin: <a href="https://github.com/enricofer/gdrive_provider">https://github.com/enricofer/gdrive_provider</a><br></div>that makes use of external libraries published under Apache v2 licence<br><br></div>As far as I <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html">understand</a>  <br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p style="margin-left:40px">The <a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="_blank">Free Software Foundation</a> 
<a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/#apache2" target="_blank">considers</a> the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" target="_blank">Apache
License, Version 2.0</a> to be a
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html" target="_blank">free software</a> license,
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses" target="_blank">compatible</a> with
version 3 of the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html" target="_blank">GPL</a>. The
<a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/" target="_blank">Software Freedom Law Center</a> provides
<a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html" target="_blank">practical
advice</a>
for developers about including permissively licensed source.</p><div style="margin-left:40px">
Apache 2 software can therefore be included in GPLv3 projects, because the
GPLv3 license accepts our software into GPLv3 works.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So I should release the plugin with GPLv3 that I understand is compatible with with plugin licencing policy (<a href="http://blog.qgis.org/2016/05/29/licensing-requirements-for-qgis-plugins/" target="_blank">"GPLv2 or greater")</a><br><br></div><div>The plugin is provided with a checkbox that makes aware the user about the Google Drive Terms of Service.<br><br></div><div>Do You think that GPLv3 licensing and Google Drive Terms of Service disclaimer suffits?<br><br></div><div>Regards.<br></div><div>Enrico Ferreguti<br></div><div><br></div></div>