[Incubator] Considering Portable GIS as an OSGeo community project

[Jo Cook]

Hi Incubator List,

As you may or may not know, I have been running a small project called
Portable GIS (GIS on a USB stick for Windows) for a number of years. The
basic premise is to provide a no-install, no-config version of many of the
common open source GIS projects on a USB stick.

Recently I built a website for the project (portablegis.xyz) and I'm
working through the process of documenting and publishing all the
configuration changes that need to be made to make projects portable
(mainly batch files to be honest). This also includes the source code for
building the menu and installer files.

This is on Gitlab at https://gitlab.com/archaeogeek/portable-gis so that I
can now start accepting contributions. Note that this repository does not
contain the actual source code for the projects such as QGIS, it just
contains the files that need to be adjusted to make it work portably.

One of my colleagues has suggested that Portable GIS could be an OSGeo
Community Project, so here I am, asking about it :-)

My main concern is that autoit, which I used for building the menu, is
freeware rather than opensource (see https://www.autoitscript.com/site/ and
specifically https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/license.htm). My gut
feeling is that this bars Portable GIS from being truly open source, and
hence not suitable for being an OSGeo Community Project. Would that be
correct?

If this was the only bar to entry, I could certainly look at alternative
options for building the menu.

Regards

Jo



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