[Qgis-psc] How to publish QGIS map under the CC BY 4.0 license

[Paolo Cavallini]

Dear Solange,
please clarify to the Editor that we do not impose any restriction on
the maps produced with our software. I frankly fail to understand where
he can have taken this idea from. In any case, this would apply to
anything produced with GPL software, and probably with any software overall.
All the best.

Il 23/02/2018 16:07, Solange Rigaud ha scritto:
> Dear QGIS community
> 
> I have submitted an article to the journal PlosOne that includes two
> maps of my data made with QGIS.
> 
>  
> 
> Here is the message from the PlosOne staff
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you for clarifying the sources of Figures. Unfortunately, maps
> produced using QGIS are copyrighted under the CC SA license, regardless
> of the data, basemap, or map tile sources. PLOS ONE cannot publish CC SA
> licensed material as we utilize the less restrictive CC BY 4.0 license.
> Under this license, all material is freely available online, and any
> third party is permitted to access, download, copy, distribute, and use
> these materials in any way, even commercially.
> 
> At this time, kindly seek permission from QGIS to publish figure 2 and
> Supplementary Figure A under the CC BY 4.0 license. We recommend that
> you contact QGIS with the following text:
> 
> “I request permission for the open-access journal PLOS ONE to publish
> the figure 2 and Supplementary Figure A under the Creative Commons
> Attribution License (CCAL) CC BY 4.0
> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>). Please be aware that
> this license allows unrestricted use and distribution, even
> commercially, by third parties. Please reply and provide explicit
> written permission to publish XXX under a CC BY license.”
> 
> Please upload the granted permission to the manuscript as a supporting
> information file. In the figure caption of the copyrighted figure,
> please include the following text: “Reprinted from [ref] under a CC BY
> license, with permission from [name of publisher], original copyright
> [original copyright year].” 
> 
>  
> 
> Who can help me to get the permission? And I really do not know what
> information to add in that figure caption: Reprinted from [ref] under
> a CC BY license, with permission from [name of publisher], original
> copyright [original copyright year].” 



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