[QGIS-Developer] QGIS projects - can they be licensed and/or copyrighted ?

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Bo, 

Please don't tell me that your students or you have the idea/impression
that the license of QGIS (as a software) propagates to the data you edit
with this software? This is a comlete nonsense and I don't know who
started with this rumor. 

For some strange reasons I have heard this idea before and I wonder if
some trolls from proprietary software companies who dislike OpenSource
distribute this FUD? If this discussion were about elections I would say
that this idea originates from Putins troll factory. 

If this would be the case, then Adobe or Microsoft would own copyright
to all documents their users edit. 

The copyright of the QGIS project files or any data you edit with QGIS
is totally independent from the license itself and it is the sole
decision of the author of the data. Of course, if you get the data you
work with from someone else, their license terms apply as well. 

Please help to get rid of this strange idea! 

Andreas 

On 2019-10-30 12:31, Bo Victor Thomsen wrote:

> Hi list -
> 
> During a university lecture about QGIS and licensing (GPL) I got a question about QGIS projects.
> 
> Can a project be copyrighted or licensed differently from QGIS ? We are not talking about plugins - they are always under the same license af QGIS, namely GPL.
> 
> But what about the QGIS projects ? Same license or copyrigt af QGIS itself. Or what ??
> 
> -- 
> Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
> 
> Bo Victor Thomsen
> 
> Den 30-10-2019 kl. 08:11 skrev Raymond Nijssen: 
> 
> On 30-10-19 07:11, Tim Sutton wrote: http://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/3.10/#improved-svg-layered-exports Improved SVG layered exports - any more hints on this & how we can show it visually (if at all)? 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> A few weeks ago I accidentally hit this one (I think). Before, the layers in an exported svg file were called "layer 1", "layer 2", etc and now they contain the name of a layer.
> 
> This is making a customer of mine very happy, cause she uses the export in Illustrator.
> 
> Regards,
> Raymond
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