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

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 02/28/2015 07:21 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> The "Do not Rip/Merge" clause may prevent inclusion in QGIS if the
> cpt-city collection is considered an "All in one gradients ... for
> download".
> 
> Since the README.txt included in cpt-city clearly states that copyright
> is held by the respective authors, the clause does not seem to apply.
> The gradients collection is not claimed to be by a different author.
> 
> If the FTP masters cannot be persuaded of this view, excluding the es
> gradient doesn't look very problematic either.

The problematic ElevenSword gradients needed to be excluded from the
Debian package, FTP master accepted QGIS 2.8.1 after the second
repacking that also excluded the gradients.

Next up, the very probable build failures on arm*.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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