[Qgis-psc] Choosing a license for my QGIS plugin

[Maxime Dufour]

Hello everyone !

I have a question regarding the choice of the open source license if I want to implement my tool as a QGIS plugin.
I'm currently developing a tool for Heating and Cooling networks and my partners agreed on using the MIT license for this tool (we wanted something quite permissive).
While reading your page (https://plugins.qgis.org/) describing how to add a plugin to the plugin repository, I noticed that a license file must be present: GPL 2 or later mandatory
Software licensing is new to me and I must admit that the "later" is quite unclear, do you mean that only GPL 2/3 are accepted as license for the plugins ? In that case the MIT license wouldn't be possible, would it ?

Thanks in advance !

Best regards,

Maxime Dufour

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