[Qgis-psc] Proposal that QGIS.ORG will become a member of the OpenDesign Alliance

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Andreas

Do you know if the QGIS.ORG membership would apply also for
third-party packages? To my knowledge, only the Windows standalone
package is produced and distributed directly by QGIS.ORG. Other
packages are created and distributed by third parties:
- osgeo4w - by OSGeo
- linux packages - by Debian, Fedora, ...
- os x - by KyngChaos

Also, if I wanted to compile QGIS with Teigha library myself and
distribute it to someone else, would I be allowed to do it within
QGIS.ORG membership?

Regards
Martin


On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> Hi QGIS.ORG board,
>
> As you may be aware, Jürgen I worked on a proposal to allow import of CAD
> data into QGIS. Jürgen provided an offer.
>
> We plan to use the Teigha library of the OpenDesign Alliance (ODA)
> (https://www.opendesign.com/the_oda_platform/Teigha). It isn't GPL
> compatible and it requires a membership fee with annual renewal.
>
> I was investigating whether OSGEO could become a member - this is
> theoretically possible, but it would require a higher and more expensive
> membership level than as if QGIS.ORG would become a member. I would thus
> propose that QGIS.ORG becomes a sustaining member of the ODA, which would
> allow to distribute binaries of the Teigha library for all of our supported
> platforms, along with the QGIS binaries.$
>
> Financially, the sustaining membership level would mean US $5000.- in the
> first year and US $3000.- annual renewal in the subsequent years. I would
> propose that QGIS.ORG would pay this membership fees from the QGIS.ORG funds
> - and if you agree - will include it into our 2016 budget. See
> https://www.opendesign.com/Sustaining
>
> I will propose to make this decision dependent on our ability to raise the
> 32k Euros required to pay Jürgen for the QGIS-side development. So far I
> only have confirmations for about 10k Euros. Still some work to raise the
> full amount.
>
> Do you have any questions regarding this proposal?
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
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