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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16.01.20 19:27, Even Rouault wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Regarding
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">prohibit the use of QGIS to the fossil-fuels industry.
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and
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">...may I suggest to add GLOBAL PEACE & WAR issues to this QGIS
discussion on environmental questions ?
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That's not a good idea IHMO. Don't mix licensing & ethics. Free software
licenses explicitly don't discriminate against fields of endehavor (see clause
6 of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opensource.org/osd-annotated">https://opensource.org/osd-annotated</a> ), and adding discrimination is
currently generally considered as being a bad idea and likely not enforcable
in most juridictions, although they are debates around attempts at having
ethical open source licensing
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://medium.com/@gmcgath/the-futility-of-the-hippocratic-license-b6a9ad981dec">https://medium.com/@gmcgath/the-futility-of-the-hippocratic-license-b6a9ad981dec</a>).
Things can get really complex. For example, regarding prohibiting the use to
the fossil-fuels industry, what about car makers: should they be considered as
being part of the fossil-fuel industry, and thus prohibited from using the
software and thus using proprietary mapping solution instead, etc etc. (Open
Source) licensing is (or is perceived to be) a sufficiently complex topic
already to not complicate it further.</pre>
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Thanks Even for a very nice write-up of a complex matter,
even-though I see Alessandro's point, I'm absolutely with you that
we should not mix our ethics with our licenses.
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Personal note: my contributions to FOSS4G related software all started because
I was able to use them in the context of working in the defense industry in my
past life: is it about peace or war ? both, depending from the point of view.
I should also remind, that for good or worse, the EPSG database that is
critical to proper CRS management in our software is mostly maintained by
IOGP.
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<p>With OPENGIS.ch we have refused to do some work offers because we
didn't feel confident that it was about Peace, but that is an
assessment that each individual has to do himself since as you say
it depends on the viewpoint.</p>
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The world is complex.
Even
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