[Qgis-developer] Plugin licence

[Even Rouault]

> - a more reasonable use case would be a plugin that would be compatible of
> QGIS and another proprietary GIS through some abstraction layer of their
> different APIs. The core of your plugin could then be permissively licensed
> to be compatible of both licensing models.

Actually this point is quite interesting since for example NVidia claims that 
their proprietary code for their video drivers is not a derived work of the 
Linux kernel since it is used in the drivers of other OS. So only the 
adaptation layer between their generic driver and the Linux kernel is GPL. 
This is of course a much disputable point of view, but nobody has cared enough 
to challenge NVidia in front of a court. What it shows is that the concept of 
what is a derived work or not can be somewhat fuzzy.

> 
> </my ow opinion, not pretending this is the project one>
> 
> > On Wed, 25 May 2016 8:01 pm Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> > > Il 25/05/2016 11:42, Tom Chadwin ha scritto:
> > > > I guess I am just sceptical that GPL's requirement for GPL licensing
> > > > of a product, purely by virtue of importing the first product as a
> > > > library, is likely to hold much legal weight.
> > > 
> > > We asked for legal advice, and that was the official response.
> > > All the best.
> > > 
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