<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Hi,<br><br>The QGIS licence (and the licences of other software it uses, such as GDAL, PROJ.4, QT, etc) fully enable commercial use of the software.<br><br>You are free to sell the software, sell products you create with the software, or sell services you provide using the software. There are no restrictions on any such use.<br><br>The main difference in an Open Source licence from more restrictive ones is that if you do sell (provide in any way) the software, you must provide access to the source code as well as the compiled application.<br><br>You may be interested to know that ESRI has included the same GDAL libraries as QGIS in its commercial GIS products - no problems there.<br><br>I'm responsible for a custom version of QGIS which is used by several consultants in the same way you propose. (<a
href="http://www.niwa.co.nz/software/quantum-map">http://www.niwa.co.nz/software/quantum-map</a>) This version is developed by QGIS developers - and is one approach they generate income from their work on QGIS.<br><br>Brent Wood<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Stipe Vrankovic <svrankovic@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 6, 2014 8:40 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Qgis-user] QGIS for commercial usage<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv2530717564"><div
dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I'm working as land surveyor in geomatics
company and I'm wondering is it possible to legally and free use QGIS
for company commercial purposes? Thank you in advance!<br><br>
</div>Best regards!<div class="yiv2530717564"><div class="yiv2530717564"><img class="yiv2530717564"><br></div><div class="yiv2530717564">Stipe<br></div></div></div>
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