[Qgis-developer] Plugin licence

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 23/05/2016 17:12, Tom Chadwin ha scritto:
> I know that a QGIS plugin has to be open-source for the plugin to be included
> in the QGIS plugins repo. However, are there any further
> requirements/limitations on which open-source licence to choose for plugins?
> I was leaning towards MIT, but Riccardo (author of qgis2leaf) rightly
> suggested that I clarify if there is any position from QGIS on this?

Hi Tom,
we do not ahve any special position; we stick to the original licence
(GPL2), so if in your plugin you import qgis, the plugin must have the
same licence. So in our case MIT is not an option.
All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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