[Qgis-user] QGIS Is And Will Remain Free Open Source Software

[Gary Sherman]

My recent blog post (http://blog.qgis.org/qgis_going_closed_source)  
appears to have caused confusion for some. Be assured that the post  
was an April Fools (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_fools_day) joke.

QGIS is Free and Open Source Software and will remain so. There have  
been no changes to the project management, license, or philosophy. The  
development team is hard at work and preparing for a new release in  
the near future.

I apologize for any concern this may have caused in the community.  
Obviously my humor didn't translate well to all corners of the user  
base.

My previous QGIS April Fools joke a few years back was that we were  
porting the code from C++ to Java. Nobody believed that one...

-gary

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