[Qgis-psc] QGIS licence (was: QGIS on iOS was QGIS for Mobile (Android))

[Even Rouault]

On jeudi 17 octobre 2019 12:30:07 CEST Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On 17/10/19 12:04, Martin Dobias wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Let me share my thoughts...
> > 
> > - re Ars Technica article - I agree with Andreas we are in different
> > position, having a great community project with no single company
> > owning it. Anyway the article is a good reminder of possible threats
> > that FOSS projects might face (there's also an interesting FOSDEM
> > keynote [1] about that). Even though right now it concerns mostly
> > server-side software, I can see also a possibility that in future
> > people would be buying cheap computers with closed operating systems
> > that would only run cloud-hosted desktop apps - and people would have
> > to pay for running the apps even though the apps were open source
> > licensed.
> 
> the general issue is well known, and the first rationale pushing towards
> the creation of GPL3. In fact, already several years ago, most
> prominently during the Valmiera HF, there were talks of changing from
> GPL2 to GPL3 for this reason (the famous Affero clause). At tha time, it
> was mostly a company that opposed the move.

Just a clarificiation: switching to GPL v3 doesn't offer you the extra 
projections/restrictions of the Affero license. You need to switch to AGPL v3 
itself (AGPL v3 and GPL v3 are explicitly allowing a combined work of both, 
with each part being subject to its own licensing terms)

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