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

[Luigi Pirelli]

AFAIK MIT (expat license) is compatibile with GPL (any version)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

regards
Luigi Pirelli

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On 21 April 2017 at 14:49, C Hamilton <adenaculture at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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