[Qgis-developer] Mixing GPL-2 & GPL-3 code in QGIS (official Debian package rejected by FTP master)

[Sandro Santilli]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 11:21:01PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 02/28/2015 10:47 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> > On Sat, 28. Feb 2015 at 19:21:23 +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg

> >> Removing the dxf2shp_converter plugin from QGIS would get rid of
> >> the problematic GPL-2 licensed works, but the inclusion of GPL-3+
> >> works still upgrades the GPL-2+ license for QGIS to GPL-3+.
> > 
> > Would that be a problem?  In that case Debian is free to
> > redistribute.
> 
> It's not a problem with the DFSG, but it may not be the intention or
> desire of the QGIS developers.

If it wasn't, QGIS would be GPL-2 only.

Previous discussion:
 http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3432

A couple of still-open tickets about licensing:
 http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3789
 http://hub.qgis.org/issues/11216

--strk;