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

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey,

Yes, that is pretty much it.  As both software don't link to each other,
you are just making a package to deploy them together for ease.

- Nathan

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> Thanks for your reply and the pointer to the discussion. I wasn't sure
> about it.
>
> So as long as the GPL and NON-GPL software doesn't link each others
> libraries, it should be fine to bundle the two in one single installer?
>
> I'll wait for other comments before I reply with a definite answer.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2017-01-09 10:36, Nathan Woodrow 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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