<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 20 Nov 2015, at 16:42, Vincent Picavet (ml) <<a href="mailto:vincent.ml@oslandia.com" class="">vincent.ml@oslandia.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 20/11/2015 09:53, Tim Sutton wrote:<br class="">[...]<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">SP have indicated that they do not have time to back port it now to QGIS<br class="">upstream and when I asked if they will back port if we can fund it they<br class="">indicated they consider it as a ‘value add’ to their customers (Marco /<br class="">Pirmin please correct my statements if I misinterpreted your message)<br class="">which they are not yet ready to pass on upstream. Obviously that is not<br class="">ideal but we cannot force them to contribute their changes back hence my<br class="">suggestion for 2). <br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I do not really see how this position can be sustainable on the long run.<br class="">Especially with QGIS being GPLv2, the ftools C++ port is GPL-licenced too.<br class="">Which means that anyone being in possession of QGIS Enterprise would be<br class="">allowed to claim the source code, and distribute it on GitHub for QGIS<br class="">master integration.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes that is a possibly, but personally I think it would be much nicer to accept such a contribution with SP consent and agreement rather than trying to end-run around them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">8< - - - - snip - - - - -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Folks can I ask that we move the thread back to the practical issues of plotting a roadmap to solving our FTools issues rather than pursuing this avenue which is a dead-end in terms of getting a usable FTools into the hands of our users.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><br class=""><div class=""><span class=""><img height="60" width="60" apple-inline="yes" id="CF82A5D3-AD4F-4BB9-9BAC-9FA479F5A04C" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" class="" src="cid:DDEF9B12-67C3-4498-BD7D-EC3563CC35A4"></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class="">QGIS Project Steering Committee Member<br class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>