[QGIS-Developer] Environmental policy

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

Yes, I'd also like to focus on the original issue:

QGIS.ORG should only fund train tickets for short distance travels to 
QGIS contributor meetings (and come up with a definition what "short 
distance" means).

The other discussions about restricting usage of QGIS is a "can of 
worms". The world is not black and white and some substantial amount of 
FOSSGIS software originated from military backgrounds.

Andreas

Am 16.01.20 um 19:27 schrieb Even Rouault:
> Regarding
>
>> prohibit the use of QGIS to the fossil-fuels industry.
> and
>
>> ...may I suggest to add GLOBAL PEACE & WAR issues to this QGIS
>> discussion on environmental questions ?
> That's not a good idea IHMO. Don't mix licensing & ethics. Free software
> licenses explicitly don't discriminate against fields of endehavor (see clause
> 6 of https://opensource.org/osd-annotated ), and adding discrimination is
> currently generally considered as being a bad idea and likely not enforcable
> in most juridictions, although they are debates around attempts at having
> ethical open source licensing
> (https://medium.com/@gmcgath/the-futility-of-the-hippocratic-license-b6a9ad981dec).
>
> Things can get really complex. For example, regarding prohibiting the use to
> the fossil-fuels industry, what about car makers: should they be considered as
> being part of the fossil-fuel industry, and thus prohibited from using the
> software and thus using proprietary mapping solution instead, etc etc. (Open
> Source) licensing is (or is perceived to be) a sufficiently complex topic
> already to not complicate it further.
>
> Personal note: my contributions to FOSS4G related software all started because
> I was able to use them in the context of working in the defense industry in my
> past life: is it about peace or war ? both, depending from the point of view.
>
> I should also remind, that for good or worse, the EPSG database that is
> critical to proper CRS management in our software is mostly maintained by
> IOGP.
>
> The world is complex.
>
> Even
>