[Qgis-developer] QGIS API Distance, Azimuth/Bearing - API Documentation

[C Hamilton]

Thanks for your input. I will do some research on the GNU vs MIT license as
well as prepare a QGIS development environment and then see where I can go
from there.

All the best!!!

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:56 PM, C Hamilton <adenaculture at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Here are my questions.
> >
> > 1. Sorry for my lack of knowledge here. I have gotten into the plugin
> > development and I have been thinking that I could possibly contribute to
> the
> > actual QGIS code, but I am not sure what you want done when you say to
> do a
> > "pull request on the topic".
>
> I meant to basically:
> 1. clone the QGIS source code repository from https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
> 2. build QGIS yourself - see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/
> blob/master/INSTALL
> 3. create a branch and implement your changes in the branch
> 4. create a pull request in QGIS repository on GitHub
>
>
> > 2. geographiclib already has done the work for the more accurate geodesic
> > algorithms. They use the MIT/X11 license. Is that compatible with the
> QGIS
> > GNU2 license? It would certainly be easiest to use that code rather than
> > trying to reinvent it.
>
> It is possible that they are compatible, but I don't know - better to
> research that first...
>
>
> > 3. What is the best way to learn the steps necessary to contribute to the
> > core QGIS project?
>
> I think my reply above partially answers this question. Have a look also
> here:
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/
> qgisdevelopersguide/index.html
>
> If you have further questions on how to get started, feel free to ask
> here on qgis-dev list.
>
> Regards
> Martin
>
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