[Qgis-developer] License

[Even Rouault]

Le jeudi 25 juillet 2013 18:18:46, Angelos Tzotsos a écrit :
> 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.

It depends if the QGIS project has strong reasons to move from GPL v2 or later 
to GPL v3. But, as a reminder, mixing GPL v2 only and GPL v3 is not possible 
since the licences are incompatible. What should be considered is QGIS and its 
whole ecosystem. Keeping with GPL v2 or later is the option that maximises 
compatibility with other GPL dependencies.


> 
> 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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