[Qgis-developer] Do QGIS and QGIS plugins fall under the same usage rights for scientific publication?

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Fox,

QGIS plugins are always GPL no matter what (unless you don't share them).
So yes QGIS and QGIS plugins both have the same copyright (well copyleft
really) licence.

You are free to use a plugin for what ever purpose you see fit.

Regards,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Fox Underwood <foxunderwood at gmail.com>
wrote:

> QGIS, with citation, can be used for research. Can QGIS plugins
> (installable from the plugin list within QGIS Desktop), with citation, also
> be used for research? In other words, if someone creates a plugin that's
> added to the repository, does the plugin then fall under all the same usage
> and copyright rules that QGIS does?
>
> I realise it's splitting hairs and I'm sure it's alright to use the plugin
> in research (citing both QGIS and the plugin creator separately), but I was
> asked to look into plugin use for copyright reasons before creating more
> figures and submitting a paper. I emailed the plugin developer to ask
> permission to use the plugin for research purposes. Since I haven't heard
> back, I thought I'd ask QGIS developers about usage of plugins found in the
> repository.
>
> This page referred me to the QGIS developer mailing list:
> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/QGIS_Citation_Repository
>
> Clarification would be much appreciated. I'm quite happy to be using QGIS
> for research now!
>
> Fox
>
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