[Qgis-psc] Question on bundling QGIS installer with proprietary software

[Nathan Woodrow]

See this post for reference
http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/252975/gpl-and-non-gpl-software-common-installer

On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 7:36 pm Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> This is fine. There is nothing wrong with making your own installer that
> bundles other software together with QGiS. QGIS is still GPL that doesn't
> change but creating your own installer is your own work.
>
> I don't think we should consider installers etc derived work.
>
> Nathan.
>
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 7:30 pm Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> One of our recent QGIS bronze sponsors (http://www.geos-hellinge.de/)
> asks me if he is allowed to bundle the QGIS installer with his own
> proprietary geodetic software, to allow a good integration of the two
> systems.
>
> I said that most likely, that this is not possible, but that I will ask
> the QGIS PSC.
>
> Am I right, that a combined installer of GPL with proprietary software is
> not possible? But if he provides something like a batch file that first
> installs the proprietary software and then runs QGIS 2.14 LTR as a separate
> independent installer, this may be allowed - is this correct?
>
> Here is the original question in german language: "Ich habe noch eine
> Frage zur Installation von QGIS: Ich würde gerne eine QGIS-Installation
> zusammen mit unserem vermessungstechnischen Programmsystem KAVDI in einem
> Setup für unsere Kunden bereitstellen. Das hätte den Vorteil, dass das
> Zusammenspiel zwischen KAVDI und QGIS  "Out of the box" funktioniert.
> Ist das lizenztechnisch erlaubt ?"
>
> Thanks for a clarification,
>
> Andreas
>
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