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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>thanks a lot for the reply and forwarding to the PSC.<br>
</p>
<p>Also, thanks to the PSC for quickly adressing the issue. I'm
going to jump threads<br>
here a little to reply also to Marco Bernasocchi's e-mail:</p>
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<pre>Even Though the cookbook has a lot of code, we decided to license it under
a documentation license and not a software license, since the code is
mostly for documentation purposes and are considered "trivial code":</pre>
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<p>I think that the code being "trivial" is the crucial information
to answer my question.</p>
<p>Following up on that, I think that a similar statement at the
beginning of the Cookbook<br>
documentation would be very helpful for users in a situation
similar to mine. I.e. a small<br>
statement that explicitly tells the (developing) user that the
code is considered trivial<br>
and may be reused in GPL'ed QGIS plugins.</p>
<p>Otherwise I think that deciding whether some code is trivial is
not a trivial task - at<br>
least I did not experience it to be so.<br>
</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>Best regards<br>
Malte<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03.07.21 23:35, Alexandre Neto
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hi,
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<div dir="auto">Although I think you can safely use and
replicate any part of the documentation, including code
snippets, I think you spotted an important issue.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I do believe we should add a licence to all our
documentation. Maybe a creative commons license.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I have included the PSC mailing list in this
reply, maybe they already have a position about this subject.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Alexandre Neto</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">A sexta, 2/07/2021, 18:30,
Malte Ziebarth <<a href="mailto:ziebarth@gfz-potsdam.de"
moz-do-not-send="true">ziebarth@gfz-potsdam.de</a>>
escreveu:<br>
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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
href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#writing-a-plugin"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#writing-a-plugin</a><br>
</p>
<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> Last updated
on Jul 02, 2021 09:02."<br>
</span></p>
<p><span>with no further licensing information.<br>
</span></p>
<p><span>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>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>Kind regards<br>
Malte Ziebarth<br>
</span></p>
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Malte J. Ziebarth
Section 2.6
Tel.: +49 (0)331/288-28634
E-Mail: <a href="mailto:ziebarth@gfz-potsdam.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">ziebarth@gfz-potsdam.de</a>
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Stiftung des öff. Rechts Land Brandenburg
Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam</pre>
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Malte J. Ziebarth
Section 2.6
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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Stiftung des öff. Rechts Land Brandenburg
Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam</pre>
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