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

[Fox Underwood]

Hi Nathan,

Well, that's good news. Thank you for the answer! (And sorry for the
bother!)

Cheers,

On 15 June 2016 at 15:54, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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