[QGIS-Developer] PyQGIS Cookbook License

[Malte Ziebarth]

Hi,

thanks a lot for the reply and forwarding to the PSC.

Also, thanks to the PSC for quickly adressing the issue. I'm going to 
jump threads
here a little to reply also to Marco Bernasocchi's e-mail:

> Even Though the cookbook has a lot of code, we decided to license it under
> a documentation license and not a software license, since the code is
> mostly for documentation purposes and are considered "trivial code":

I think that the code being "trivial" is the crucial information to 
answer my question.

Following up on that, I think that a similar statement at the beginning 
of the Cookbook
documentation would be very helpful for users in a situation similar to 
mine. I.e. a small
statement that explicitly tells the (developing) user that the code is 
considered trivial
and may be reused in GPL'ed QGIS plugins.

Otherwise I think that deciding whether some code is trivial is not a 
trivial task - at
least I did not experience it to be so.

Thanks again!

Best regards
Malte

On 03.07.21 23:35, Alexandre Neto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Although I think you can safely use and replicate any part of the 
> documentation, including code snippets, I think you spotted an 
> important issue.
>
> I do believe we should add a licence to all our documentation. Maybe a 
> creative commons license.
>
> I have included the PSC mailing list in this reply, maybe they already 
> have a position about this subject.
>
> Alexandre Neto
>
>
> A sexta, 2/07/2021, 18:30, Malte Ziebarth <ziebarth at gfz-potsdam.de 
> <mailto:ziebarth at gfz-potsdam.de>> escreveu:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     first off, thank you all for all the great work that went into QGIS!
>
>     I am currently writing a Python plugin that I intend to make publicly
>     available in the plugin repository. I started developing the plugin by
>     adapting the examples from the PyQGIS Cookbook, specifically this
>     page:
>
>     https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#writing-a-plugin
>     <https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#writing-a-plugin>
>
>     Now the problem that I encountered with that is the license of the
>     skeleton
>     code (i.e. __init__.py and mainPlugin.py). The code does not
>     actually contain
>     a license header and the documentation page itself contains only the
>     very general copyright information
>
>     "© Copyright 2002-now, QGIS project. Last updated on Jul 02, 2021
>     09:02."
>
>     with no further licensing information.
>
>     I guess that the intention of this part of documentation is for
>     people to
>     have an easy start developing plugins which can then be
>     contributed back
>     to the community under GPL license. This is just what I am planning to
>     do. However, trying to put this into a correct license header is
>     currently
>     giving me a bit of a headache.
>
>     Maybe someone here in this mailing list has some advice about this
>     issue,
>     and maybe even the person/people who wrote this piece of code can
>     clarify?
>     Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>     Kind regards
>     Malte Ziebarth
>
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Malte J. Ziebarth
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