[Qgis-developer] License Summary

[Volker Fröhlich]

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 08:35 -0300, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> 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?

No, it does not have to, from a legal point of view.

Volker

> 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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