[Qgis-developer] License Summary

[Victor Olaya]

Werner

Thanks!

The java SEXTNATE code is MIT licensed, but I think that someone said
that QGIS plugins should be GPL. I am fine with both GPL 2 and 3, in
case you can add the headers yourself (thanks in advance!).

Alexander and Camilo contributed code as well. Do they have anything
to say about this?

Regards

Victor


2012/10/4 Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
> I took the freedom to dig a bit deeper into what is in our sourcecode..
> Licenses we have so far:
>
> 1475 Files: GPL (v2 or later)
>
> 508 Files: (*No copyright* ) UNKNOW -> We should definitely fix this!!
>
> 41 Files: GPL (v3 or later) (sqlanywhere and pal) -> Issues? Do we have
> to switch do v3?
> 21 Files: zlib/libpng
> 18 Files: LGPL
> 6 Files: MPL (v1.1) GPL (unversioned/unknown version)
> 6 Files: MIT/X11 (BSD like)
> 4 Files: (*No copyright*) GENERATED FILE
> 2 Files: BSD (3 clause)
> 1 File: *No copyright* Public domain
>
> So once we have cleaned those 508 Files with UNKNOWN we can decide under
> which license the "QGIS" has to be (GPL v2+? GPL v3+)
> There is also the possibility that some of the UNKNOWN do have a
> copyright and these things do have a "wrong" header which is not caught
> by the licensechecker ..
> I try to stick to this and clean those headers or make them at least
> readable by licencechecker to automate this thing in the future.
> If anyone with more knowledge about influence of licenses to each other
> could jump in and have a look what license would be the correct one for
> us if we include all those licenses you see above ..
>
> thanks a lot
> and Victor I already look for a nice way to integrate a header into your
> sextante files .. should be scriptable somehow .. stay tuned ;) (and
> tell me which license you would like to have so that i can probably add
> the header to all files at once)
>
> kind regards
> Werner
>
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