[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Synergy of QGIS Enterprise and QGIS 2.0/Master branch

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Hi Tim,

Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2013, 23.15:03 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> 
> Pirmin what happens if / when QGIS project itself wants to release QGIS
> Enterprise version - or another company? Maybe it would be better to call
> it 'Sourcepole GIS' or something to make it clear that it is not an
> official QGIS product but an official Sourcepole product? I think there is
> going to be a lot of confusion otherwise with people thinking that it is
> part of the QGIS project but they can't have it....

I think a completely different name of a "new" GIS which is "very similar" to 
QGIS could be more confusion than one or many QGIS variants. Look at the 
various Linux variants (some of them commercial) or many other examples [1].

> 
> Also (out of curiosity) what is to stop one of your clients cloning the
> private source tree that you provide and then making that publicly
> available - or just pushing it back in to the mainstream QGIS tree? i.e. do
> you realise any real long term benefit from keeping the tree private in the
> first place?

We didn't think a lot about publishing our source code branch, yet. So this 
could happen anytime. The question why clients do not publish sources of 
commercial FOSS software is hard to answer. Maybe it's a question of loality?

Regards
Pirmin

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open_source_applications


> 
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Yves Jacolin (Free) 
<yjacolin at free.fr>wrote:
> >> My understanding is that it is a commercial service, so you don't have
> >> any
> >> licence.
> > 
> > No.  It's still GPL.
> > 
> > Any support docs, or training sourcepole provide however are not. Only the
> > QGIS software bit part
> > 
> > - Nathan
> > 
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Pirmin Kalberer
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