[Qgis-developer] GPL in the Tips (warning: license's bigotry inside)

[MORREALE Jean Roc]

Hi,

I'm translating the Tips, this sentence caught my eye :

"The GPL places a restriction that any modifications you make must be 
made available to the Quantum GIS project"

This is misleading, you only have to share your modification if you 
distribute the binaries to somebody else. And even then you only have to 
give access to the source code to the receivers, you don't have to send 
your changes directly to the project.

For example if an geographic institute called *** made a client based on 
QGIS supporting its in-house DRM access protocol, it would only have to 
make the code available when distributing this version outside of the 
institute.

Regards,
Jean Roc