[QGIS-Developer] iOS prototyping

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi, 

Before we go to far with the discussion here, I would first ask all of
the core devs if they really would like to do that. 

Without an agreement in place, the code is owned by each contributor
separately. I know of quite a few core devs who are not keen on ceding
their copyright to QGIS.ORG, if the goal is to undermine the GPL
license. 

I am also not sure if QGIS.ORG is ready to prepare such an ownership
agreement. 

Personally, I fail to understand what the benefits are, if we go this
route. On the contrary - I think we are risking to loose many core
contributors if we do that. 

Greetings, 

Andreas 

On 2018-10-30 13:28, Denis Rouzaud wrote:

> Le mar. 30 oct. 2018 à 01:44, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> a écrit : 
> 
>> I think there are other things we could do, like introducing this non-retrospectively, so that any new code coming in is ceded to QGIS.org [1] ownership and we leave whatever is in the code base as-is. Devs could cede their previous work to QGIS.org [1] on an individual basis if they want to. Over time the bulk of the code may naturally become the copyright of QGIS.org [1] (think version 10 here...)
> 
> It might be even worth starting it on parallel (as the above provess might take a year or more). The contributors curve has more an exponential than linear shape lately.  
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