[Qgis-developer] Plugins licence

[Enrico Ferreguti]

Nathan, thanks for your kind explanation. I go like that.

Regards.

2017-05-03 14:25 GMT+02:00 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>:

> Hey,
>
> Yes, that is fine.  You can use Apache libraries in a GPL applications (I
> think QGIS already does) just not the other way around e.g you can't make
> an Apache application that includes GPL code.
>
> - Nathan
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Enrico Ferreguti <enricofer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all QGIS developers,
>>
>> I'm submitting a new plugin: https://github.com/enricofer/gdrive_provider
>> that makes use of external libraries published under Apache v2 licence
>>
>> As far as I understand
>> <https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html>
>>
>> The Free Software Foundation <http://www.fsf.org/> considers
>>> <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/#apache2> the Apache License,
>>> Version 2.0 <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> to be a free
>>> software <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html> license,
>>> compatible
>>> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses>
>>> with version 3 of the GPL
>>> <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html>. The Software Freedom
>>> Law Center <http://www.softwarefreedom.org/> provides practical advice
>>> <http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html>
>>> for developers about including permissively licensed source.
>>> Apache 2 software can therefore be included in GPLv3 projects, because
>>> the GPLv3 license accepts our software into GPLv3 works.
>>>
>>
>> So I should release the plugin with GPLv3 that I understand is compatible
>> with with plugin licencing policy ("GPLv2 or greater")
>> <http://blog.qgis.org/2016/05/29/licensing-requirements-for-qgis-plugins/>
>>
>> The plugin is provided with a checkbox that makes aware the user about
>> the Google Drive Terms of Service.
>>
>> Do You think that GPLv3 licensing and Google Drive Terms of Service
>> disclaimer suffits?
>>
>> Regards.
>> Enrico Ferreguti
>>
>>
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