[QGIS-Developer] iOS prototyping

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

We talked about this very, very briefly on the PSC - and I can already 
say that the topic is quite controversial within the PSC.

I really don't see consensus here at the moment. And even if the PSC 
wants to move in this direction, it is the voting members who need to 
agree to it - and I personally doubt that a majority of them would 
agree. The PSC (or any voting or community member) can suggest such 
changes, but it is the voting members who decide/vote on it.

@Nyall - if you want to raise such a voting, you are welcome to do so. 
But it needs a proper listing of pros and cons of such a move - and need 
to be prepared to give both sides (the proponents and the opponents of 
such a change) a fair chance to raise their arguments.

There are other open source projects that did such changes - so it seems 
to be possible. But there is a fair chance that it will create a lot of 
harm along the process (e.g. split the community into two parts).

Andreas


Am 09.11.18 um 09:06 schrieb Alessandro Pasotti:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:52 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Your concerns are very valid, but could we defer this to a different
>     discussion? I really want to avoid this becoming an us-vs-apple/debate
>     about the merit of specific licenses, and instead allow it to focus
>     solely on the question: "should the qgis org, with all the checks and
>     balances it has in place, have the power to relicense the QGIS
>     codebase (or not)"?.
>
>     Nyall
>
>
> I'm -1 on this proposal, it's not that I don't trust the PSC (that 
> have always done an amazing job!),  but perhaps because I'm Italian, I 
> never fully trust the "government", to me the GPL license is like the 
> constitution and it's there to protect from the possible abuses from 
> the "government".
>
> Also, I particularly didn't like the "(8. Replace existing code from 
> any non-signing contributors)", it sounds like "you don't like that? 
> We don't need you".
>
> -- 
> Alessandro Pasotti
> w3: www.itopen.it <http://www.itopen.it>
>
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