[Qgis-psc] Seek permission from QGIS to publish these figures under the CC BY 4.0 license

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Paolo,

This is the second request in 2 days...

Maybe better if we as PSC contact the editors directly?

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/contact

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

On 24-02-18 16:02, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi,
> 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 24/02/2018 15:51, 宋 璟璐 ha scritto:
>> Dear QGIS official members,
>>
>>  
>> I have submitted an article to the journal PlosOne that includes a set
>> of figures created by QGIS but based on data collected by we authors.
>>
>> Here is the message from the PlosOne staff
>>
>>  
>> 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. If published under the CC BY 4.0 license,
>> PLOS ONE will be violating the copyright terms set forth by QGIS. 
>>
>> At this time, kindly either a) remove or replace Figures 1, 3, 6, 8, 10,
>> S5 with maps from one of the resources listed below or b) seek
>> permission from QGIS to publish these figures 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
>> XXX under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) CC 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].”
>>  
>>
>> Therefore, could you please help provide a permission letter and allow
>> to publish figures created by QGIS under CC BY 4.0? 
>>  
>> Many thanks.  Looking forward for your reply as soon as possible.
>>
>> SONG Jinglu
>> 4th Year PhD Candidate
>> Dept of Geography and Resource Management
>> The Chinese University of Hong Kong
>> Tel: 3943-1152
>> Email: jinglusong at link.cuhk.edu.hk or viptanghulu at hotmail.com
>>
>>
>>
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