<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Elias,</div><div><br></div><div>I am adding another information considering large deployments of QGIS: if you (or your customers) rely heavily on QGIS and expect QGIS to run stable for the coming years - we recommend joining the QGIS sustaining membership program. It helps ensure that QGIS has a stable infrastructure, can apply bug fixes and address security issues in a reasonable time span. You can find more information about the sustaining memberships at <a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sustaining_members/sustaining_members.html">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sustaining_members/sustaining_members.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Andreas Neumann<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 01:42, elias via QGIS-PSC <<a href="mailto:qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7197950419571923247">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am part of a proposal organization working on a variety of large, complex, multi-user (100+) shared service imagery and mapping efforts. One proposal currently being worked, has a large GIS component with numerous requirements. I have
conducted my research and evaluation of said requirements against QGIS, ArcGIS, and ERDAS Apollo for compliance. Suffice it to say, QGIS complies with them all. Furthermore, I was very impressed and pleased with QGIS capabilities and OGC WFS/WCS/WMS compatibility
(which are a large part of the requirements). I am looking at recommending usage of QGIS as the GIS application within the larger network architecture infrastructure/system and overall proposal.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From what I have read and researched, QGIS is very well supported and maintained. However, I could not find information on the QGIS website regarding exportability. Not exportability as it relates to maps or data or graphics formats, but
more related to if there are any export restrictions in place to other countries for usage.
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<p class="MsoNormal">If we are awarded the effort, are there any restrictions on our usage of QGIS as we implement and integrate it into the larger system that will be outside of the US?
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<p class="MsoNormal">While I understand QGIS to be open source, is there any plan to implement licensing for the future progression and versions of the product?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any information you can provide or resources you can direct me to is greatly appreciated.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Elias A. Elias<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>--<br>Andreas Neumann<br></div><a href="http://QGIS.ORG" target="_blank">QGIS.ORG</a> board member (treasurer)<br></div></div>