[Qgis-developer] QGIS license and commerical software

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Matthew,

if you use QGIS libaries in your code than you code should be licensed
under same license as QGIS, GNU GPL v2+

2016-02-05 16:51 GMT+02:00 Matthew Winchester <mattpwinchester at gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Matthew Winchester and I spend most of my time developing
> software. I would like to create my own closed source software that I can
> package and sell using python. This software would be using the QGIS python
> package that I can import into a script and run to create layers on mapped
> data.
>
> I was wondering from a programmer what this QGIS license means. I have had
> several of my friends tell me that I will not be able to sell this software
> as closed source because of the license agreement to use the software. I
> have also had someone tell me that it isn't a big deal and I can use QGIS's
> library in Python to create my own code and sell it.
>
> Thank you for your time
>
>
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Alexander Bruy