[Qgis-developer] License Summary

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!).

I don't see why sextante in qgis has to change from MIT to GPL, does
it really have to?

Or is it a policy that all new code in qgis be GPL2/GPL3/LGPL?

Is there any official guideline on requirements and exact version number?

cheers
Etienne

>
> 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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