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

[Tim Sutton]

From my side I am interested in not so much a license change right now (though would be nice if iOS needed it) but rather:

* centralised management of the license by QGIS.org achieved by asking all past and future contributors to cede their copyrighted works to QGIS.org)
* a clear statement from the QGIS.org explaining under which circumstances we might change the license (e.g. adding a 1 line specific clause that allows publishing on the iOS store)

Using a mechanism like this we can occasionally strategically tweak things without having to rethink everything from the ground up.

Regards

Tim

> On 17 Oct 2019, at 12:29, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 17/10/19 13:14, Even Rouault wrote:
> 
>> 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)
> 
> right, thank you Even for the clarification. Talking about licences was
> far more common >10 yrs ago, and I forgot the details.
> Cheers.
> -- 
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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