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<p>2 cents and 2 minor points:</p>
<ul>
<li>One country's freedom fighters is another country's
terrorists.</li>
<li>The EPSG in the CRS code is an acronym for "European <b>Petroleum</b>
Survey Group"<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Don't mix personal moral/ethics with licensing<br>
</p>
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Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
Bo Victor Thomsen</pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Den 16-01-2020 kl. 20:05 skrev Andreas
Neumann:<br>
</div>
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cite="mid:5ec4dcb5-6a42-743d-8463-c1bdea6f0f26@carto.net">Hi,
<br>
<br>
Yes, I'd also like to focus on the original issue:
<br>
<br>
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).
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
Andreas
<br>
<br>
Am 16.01.20 um 19:27 schrieb Even Rouault:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Regarding
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">prohibit the use of QGIS to the
fossil-fuels industry.
<br>
</blockquote>
and
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">...may I suggest to add GLOBAL PEACE
& WAR issues to this QGIS
<br>
discussion on environmental questions ?
<br>
</blockquote>
That's not a good idea IHMO. Don't mix licensing & ethics.
Free software
<br>
licenses explicitly don't discriminate against fields of
endehavor (see clause
<br>
6 of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opensource.org/osd-annotated">https://opensource.org/osd-annotated</a> ), and adding
discrimination is
<br>
currently generally considered as being a bad idea and likely
not enforcable
<br>
in most juridictions, although they are debates around attempts
at having
<br>
ethical open source licensing
<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://medium.com/@gmcgath/the-futility-of-the-hippocratic-license-b6a9ad981dec">https://medium.com/@gmcgath/the-futility-of-the-hippocratic-license-b6a9ad981dec</a>).
<br>
<br>
Things can get really complex. For example, regarding
prohibiting the use to
<br>
the fossil-fuels industry, what about car makers: should they be
considered as
<br>
being part of the fossil-fuel industry, and thus prohibited from
using the
<br>
software and thus using proprietary mapping solution instead,
etc etc. (Open
<br>
Source) licensing is (or is perceived to be) a sufficiently
complex topic
<br>
already to not complicate it further.
<br>
<br>
Personal note: my contributions to FOSS4G related software all
started because
<br>
I was able to use them in the context of working in the defense
industry in my
<br>
past life: is it about peace or war ? both, depending from the
point of view.
<br>
<br>
I should also remind, that for good or worse, the EPSG database
that is
<br>
critical to proper CRS management in our software is mostly
maintained by
<br>
IOGP.
<br>
<br>
The world is complex.
<br>
<br>
Even
<br>
<br>
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