<div dir="ltr"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear all,</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I have a question concerning the legal aspects of QGIS plugins:</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Some time ago there was a question on gis.stackexchange about how to generate equal sized polygons along a line:</pre><pre><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/173127/generating-equal-sized-polygons-along-line-with-pyqgis">https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/173127/generating-equal-sized-polygons-along-line-with-pyqgis</a><br></span></font></pre><pre>As I needed the functionality,too I wrote a QGIS plugin for myself
which uses the logic provided in the answers.</pre><pre>Now i would like to give others the opportunity to use this plugin,too, but don't know if ESRI has some sort of Intellectual Property for a tool like this.</pre><pre>There is the ESRI tool "Creating strip map index features"</pre><pre><a href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/map/page-layouts/creating-strip-map-index-features.htm">http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/map/page-layouts/creating-strip-map-index-features.htm</a><br></pre><pre>I guess in general there are a lot of tools that are available in ESRI products as well as in other OpenSource GIS solutions like gvSIG, OpenJump or QGIS
(buffer, dissolve and so on).</pre><pre>I just want to make sure that it's ok to publish a QGIS plugin like mine.</pre><pre>So my question is: Can you tell me if a QGIS plugin which creates polygons along a line
(as the ESRI strip map index feature tool does) would violate ESRI's intelletual properties?</pre><pre>best wishes,<br></pre><pre>Thomas</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre></div>