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<p>Dear all,</p>
<p>first off, thank you all for all the great work that went into
QGIS!</p>
<p>I am currently writing a Python plugin that I intend to make
publicly<br>
available in the plugin repository. I started developing the
plugin by<br>
adapting the examples from the PyQGIS Cookbook, specifically this
page:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#writing-a-plugin">https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#writing-a-plugin</a><br>
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<p>Now the problem that I encountered with that is the license of
the skeleton<br>
code (i.e. __init__.py and mainPlugin.py). The code does not
actually contain<br>
a license header and the documentation page itself contains only
the<br>
very general copyright information</p>
<p>"© Copyright 2002-now, QGIS project. <span class="lastupdated">
Last updated on Jul 02, 2021 09:02."<br>
</span></p>
<p><span class="lastupdated">with no further licensing information.<br>
</span></p>
<p><span class="lastupdated">I guess that the intention of this part
of documentation is for people to<br>
have an easy start developing plugins which can then be
contributed back<br>
to the community under GPL license. This is just what I am
planning to<br>
do. However, trying to put this into a correct license header is
currently<br>
giving me a bit of a headache.</span></p>
<p><span class="lastupdated">Maybe someone here in this mailing list
has some advice about this issue,<br>
and maybe even the person/people who wrote this piece of code
can clarify?<br>
Any help would be greatly appreciated!</span></p>
<p><span class="lastupdated">Kind regards<br>
Malte Ziebarth<br>
</span></p>
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Malte J. Ziebarth
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Tel.: +49 (0)331/288-28634
E-Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ziebarth@gfz-potsdam.de">ziebarth@gfz-potsdam.de</a>
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Stiftung des öff. Rechts Land Brandenburg
Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam</pre>
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