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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear QGIS community<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">I have submitted an article to the journal PlosOne that includes two maps of my data made with QGIS.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">Here is the message from the PlosOne staff</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Thank you for clarifying the sources of Figures. Unfortunately, maps produced using QGIS are copyrighted under the CC SA license, regardless of the data, basemap, or map tile sources. PLOS ONE cannot publish CC SA licensed material as we utilize the less restrictive CC BY 4.0 license. Under this license, all material is freely available online, and any third party is permitted to access, download, copy, distribute, and use these materials in any way, even commercially.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br><br><span style="background:white">At this time, kindly seek permission from QGIS to publish figure 2 and Supplementary Figure A under the CC BY 4.0 license. We recommend that you contact QGIS with the following text:</span><br><br><span style="background:white">“I request permission for the open-access journal PLOS ONE to publish the figure 2 and Supplementary Figure A under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) CC BY 4.0 (</span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white">http://creativecommons.org/<wbr>licenses/by/4.0/</span></a><span style="background:white">). Please be aware that this license allows unrestricted use and distribution, even commercially, by third parties. Please reply and provide explicit written permission to publish XXX under a CC BY license.”</span><br><br><span style="background:white">Please upload the granted permission to the manuscript as a supporting information file. In the figure caption of the copyrighted figure, please include the following text: “Reprinted from [ref] under a CC BY license, with permission from [name of publisher], original copyright [original copyright year].”</span> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margi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<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-repeat:initial initial"></p><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote>Solange Rigaud, PhD<br>CNRS Researcher</div><div dir="ltr"><br>UMR 5199 PACEA <br>Université de Bordeaux <br>Bâtiment B8 <br>Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire <br>CS 50023 <br>33615 PESSAC CEDEX<br><br>tel: +33 6 51 95 48 44<div><br> <div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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