[QGIS-Developer] Environmental policy

[Bo Victor Thomsen]

2 cents and 2 minor points:

  * One country's freedom fighters is another country's terrorists.
  * The EPSG in the CRS code is an acronym for "European *Petroleum*
    Survey Group"

Don't mix personal moral/ethics with licensing

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards

Bo Victor Thomsen

Den 16-01-2020 kl. 20:05 skrev 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
>>
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