[Qgis-user] How to publish QGIS map under the CC BY 4.0 license

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Solange,

QGIS has a 'Project Steering Committee' (PSC) which you can reach on
psc at qgis.org

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not aware anywhere where we stated that maps
created with QGIS are CC-SA...

I would write a full email with maybe the images attached, and your
official request (without the XXX :-) ), and then one of the PSC members
will probably just reply with 'yep'...

Or... (as I'm not a lawyer) I totally miss something because you are
using restricted DATA or so....

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

On 23-02-18 15:29, Solange Rigaud wrote:
> Hello QGIS community
> 
> I have submitted an article to the journal PlosOne that includes an
> interpolation map of my data made with QGIS.
> 
> Here is the message from the PlosOne staff
> 
> 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.
> 
> At this time, kindly seek permission from QGIS to publish figure
> Supplementary Figure A under the CC BY 4.0 license. We recommend that
> you contact QGIS with the following text:
> 
> “I request permission for the open-access journal PLOS ONE to publish
> XXX under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) CC BY 4.0
> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>). 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.”
> 
> 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].” 
> 
> Who can help me to get the permission?
> 
> Thank you for your help
> Solange
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Solange Rigaud, PhD
> CNRS Researcher
> 
> UMR 5199 PACEA
> Université de Bordeaux
> Bâtiment B8
> Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
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> 33615 PESSAC CEDEX
> 
> tel: +33 6 51 95 48 44
> 
>  
> 
> 
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