<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Sep 2018, at 14:28, Jürgen E. Fischer <<a href="mailto:jef@norbit.de" class="">jef@norbit.de</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class="protected-part"><div class="protected-content"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>8< ——— snip ————— <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="protected-part"><div class="protected-content"><br class="">We already giving those "leechers" a headstart by letting them use (all of)<br class="">QGIS.<br class=""><br class="">The concerns with source are probably quite similar - the difference is that we<br class="">or all of the giants on whose shoulders we stand shared their work & knowledge<br class="">already and no one can claim to own QGIS anymore.<br class=""><br class="">But maybe earlier so what was given away didn't seem too big - and the possible<br class="">gain be contribution looked more promising.<br class=""><br class="">Otherwise still don't see a real difference.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I’m with Jürgen on this - I don’t see the difference between docs and source code. Another case in point is that we require plugins to be GPL which are often a big lot of work that people then go and copy / build on etc. Isn’t this the whole intent of the FOSS movement?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="protected-part"><div class="protected-content"><br class=""><br class="">Jürgen<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31<br class="">Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50<br class="">Software Engineer D-26506 Norden <a href="http://www.norbit.de" class="">http://www.norbit.de</a><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><iframe class="untrusted-content-test" scrolling="auto" width="200" height="20" style="border:none;display:block;overflow:auto;" data-src="data:text/html;charset=UTF-8;base64,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" sandbox="allow-scripts"></iframe></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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