[QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement

[Stefan Steiger]

>> As a user and employee of a French administration, I think what is proposed would be an excellent reminder. Open source is not free.


Wrong on so many levels.

First: GPL = Free Software
So since the license of QGIS is GPL, it’s free software.
“Free Software” means that along with the software, you get the source code for free, included in that is the freedom to change and redistribute it.
Free as in Freedom. That does not mean it’s gratis.

Second: “OpenSource” is not the same as 'Free Software'
“OpenSource” merely means you have the source.
It doesn’t mean you’re allowed to change or redistribute it.
It also doesn’t mean it’s gratis.
So “OpenSource” is much worse than GPL./ 'Free Software'.

Third misconception:
Free (as in freedom) doesn’t mean it’s gratis.
It just means you have the freedom to alter and redistribute the software, provided you abide by the license’s requirements, which means granting the same right to others.
It also doesn’t mean somebody else does your work for you, or pays somebody else to do your work for you.
Therefore QGIS is indeed free, just not gratis.

What you mean to say is that Free is not Gratis.
That’s a truism/platitude.

Also, if you use commercial software, you pay far more for the same, and you don’t have ANY guarantee that ANY bug is fixed, even if you can pay.
You also cannot usually pay anyone else than the original company to do some work on it, even if somebody else could do the same work far cheaper.
With commercial software, you also don’t have any guarantee that the product isn’t discontinued tomorrow, or taken into a completely different direction.

As with plugins:
As long as they are NOT distributed with the software BY DEFAULT, they don’t necessarily have to abide by the GPL.
As long as you only use it internally (e.g. on a WebServer), you don’t have to abide by the terms of the GPL (the Affero<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License>/Application-Service-Provider loophole).



Von: QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> Im Auftrag von JD L
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2021 10:10
An: Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch>
Cc: qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
Betreff: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - possible enhancement


Hi

As a user and employee of a French administration, I think what is proposed would be an excellent reminder. Open source is not free.

Le jeu. 7 janv. 2021 à 09:33, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch<mailto:matthias at opengis.ch>> a écrit :
Hi Nyall,

I would also appreciate a hint like this.
Maybe it could be done even more subtle by shortening this text and adding a link to a page "learn how to make things progress"?

I'd also very much appreciate the voices of users on this topic (that's a classical "we don't only want to hear the dev side" topic).

Matthias

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:42 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com<mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi list,

I've a small request to consider for stale bot and issues/feature
requests. I think that if a ticket remains open for say > 90 days
since the last comment, it would be nice if stale bot added a comment
like:

"Unfortunately this bug/feature request has not seen any solution in
the recent QGIS release. If this fix/feature is important to you or
your organisation, you can help to fast-track its development by
sponsoring this work. To do so, contact one of the QGIS commercial
support providers listed at ... to discuss how you could fund this
functionality".

I think it's a non-threatening, non-begging way to advise bug
reporters on the alternative ways they can fast track development in
QGIS.

Thoughts?

Nyall
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