[Qgis-developer] License

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Tim,

As per license disclaimer in qgis.cpp:

/***************************************************************************
* *
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify *
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by *
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or *
* (at your option) any later version. *
* *
***************************************************************************/

so anyone could fork the entire source tree into GPL3 without license 
problems.

I believe that only a decision needs to be made, without asking all 
copyright holders in this case (moving to MIT or similar would require that)

Cheers,
Angelos


On 07/25/2013 03:49 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>wrote:
>
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>> Il 25/07/2013 01:11, Daniel ha scritto:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> About GPLv3, is there any advance in this issue
>> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3789?
>>
>> We have discussed about this during the Valmiera meeting, without reaching
>> firm
>> conclusions. I would be in favour of moving to GPLv3, if feasible.
>> All the best.
>>
>>
> Changing the license would require getting agreement of every developer who
> ever contributed to QGIS and removing / rewriting code from those that we
> can't track down or that don't agree. I think there are a 1000 other better
> things we could be spending our time doing....
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>> - --
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>> Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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