[Qgis-developer] license issues

Alexander Bruy alexander.bruy at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 11:03:12 PDT 2012


Hi Werner,

but which license we should put in files? As I can see there is one open
ticket [0] and one closed [1] and both about GPL v3(+?). But in other hand,
most QGIS source files still contain reference to GPL v2+

[0] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3789
[1] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3432

2012/10/3 Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:
> Dear developers,
>
> A long outstanding issue is (which is probably preventing QGIS from
> being integrated into the "main" debian repository and the fedora
> repository) that there are a lot of files inside our source tree that
> have no or an unknown license with no copyright and so on ..
>
> I took the freedom to make a short list and sort out all file which
> have no license header ..
>
> All in all I found 516 files without any license!
> And bad news for Victor and sextante - 275 of them are in the sextante
> subdirectories ;)
>
> I encourage and kindly ask all developers who committed this files to
> add a proper header to those files to get a bit closer of being
> adopted into the main repositories of the big Linux distributions (not
> to forget that having a copyright and license in the files is anyway a
> good thing to have)
>
> Find attached the list of the files (or if it does not go through the
> server you can find the file in [1])
>
> If you need any help drop me a note
> thanks for your help
>
> kind regards
> Werner


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Alexander Bruy


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