[Qgis-psc] Licence compatibility

[Paolo Cavallini]

Thanks a lot Vincent.

Il 12 aprile 2018 10:54:39 GMT-04:00, "Vincent Picavet (ml)" <vincent.ml at oslandia.com> ha scritto:
>Hello,
>
>On 12/04/2018 16:45, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am examining a plugin[0], just submitted, who has a MIT licence.
>I'm
>> not sure we can allow import of GPL classes into a MIT code (the
>reverse
>> is obviously possible).
>> Does someone have a clear idea about this?
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> [0]http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/GeodynGem/
>
>MIT is compatible with GPL version 2 at least, and version 3 also (
>should be verified though).
>
>As soon as it is distributed and executed, the full package becomes
>GPL.
>
>From Wikipedia page, and also the following page :
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Compatibility_and_multi-licensing
>
>To minimize license proliferation and license incompatibilities in the
>FOSS ecosystem, some organizations (the Free Software Foundation, for
>instance) and individuals (David A. Wheeler), argue that compatibility
>with the widely used GPL is an important feature of software
>licenses.[28][self-published source?] Many of the most common
>free-software licenses, especially the permissive licenses, such as the
>original MIT/X license, BSD licenses (in the three-clause and
>two-clause
>forms, though not the original four-clause form), MPL 2.0, and LGPL,
>are
>GPL-compatible. That is, their code can be combined with a program
>under
>the GPL without conflict, and the new combination would have the GPL
>applied to the whole (but the other license would not so apply).
>
>Vincent

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