<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 20 Nov 2015, at 17:55, Jürgen E. Fischer <<a href="mailto:jef@norbit.de" class="">jef@norbit.de</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi Tim,<br class=""><br class="">On Fri, 20. Nov 2015 at 11:01:10 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I’d also like to keep good relations with SP as they have a long history of<br class="">contributions and support of the QGIS project, so if they don’t wish to share<br class="">the code back to QGIS upstream, I think we should respect that and make an<br class="">alternative plan, even if it is not the ideal situation.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Um, is sourcepole that distant? I still think of them as important part of the<br class="">team, </blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Well that was my point above….<br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">while above sounds like they are some remote contributor.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t think so - we are able to directly ask them “will you share your code” and they are comfortable enough to say “not at this time, probably in the future” which is a better and more straightforward / open conversation that we might have had with some third party that we don’t know. Anyway if I came across as making them sound like some remote contributor that was certainly not my intention...</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">And our technical advisor should be on very good terms with them ;)<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="">Without being able to look at the code - if sourcepole doesn't currently have<br class="">the resources to do the port, maybe someone else can?<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I did ask them this and as I and others mentioned, their position is they wish to provide the code as a value-add to their customers at the moment so I think they issue is a) they don’t have time and b) they wish to leverage the investment they made with their customers first before the contribute it back to QGIS. Again Marco or Pirmin please feel free to correct me or others if we have misrepresented your position.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Jürgen<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31<br class="">Dipl.-Inf. 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