<div dir="ltr"><div>Nathan, thanks for your kind explanation. I go like that.<br><br></div>Regards.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-05-03 14:25 GMT+02:00 Nathan Woodrow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com" target="_blank">madmanwoo@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey,<div><br></div><div>Yes, that is fine.  You can use <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Apache libraries</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"> in a GPL applications (I think QGIS already does) just not the other way around e.g you can't make an Apache application that includes GPL code.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px">- Nathan</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Enrico Ferreguti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:enricofer@gmail.com" target="_blank">enricofer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><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" target="_blank">https://github.com/enricofer/g<wbr>drive_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" target="_blank">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.<span class="m_7980047935422249824HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="m_7980047935422249824HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Enrico Ferreguti<br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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