[Qgis-developer] Plugin licence

Nathan Woodrow madmanwoo at gmail.com
Wed May 25 02:05:47 PDT 2016


I'm sure you have much choice when it gets to GPL. Your plugin is still GPL
regardless. It does get a bit slippery once you include other libraries but
I think it's fine in this case.  They are all open source so no harm
really.

Same as use using GDAL with it being MIT

On Wed, 25 May 2016 6:56 pm Tom Chadwin <tom.chadwin at nnpa.org.uk> wrote:

> Of course, since qgis2web is middleware, its licence also has to be
> compatible with Leaflet, Openlayers 3, and their respective plugins, none
> of
> which are GPL. Since the plugin bundles and distributes these libraries, I
> would say complying with their licences is of greater importance than
> complying with QGIS, which is not distributed with the plugin.
>
> Not trying to start an argument - I just want to do the right thing by the
> creators of all the software on which mine is built.
>
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