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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 17 Oct 2019, at 13:17, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> On 17/10/19 14:14, Tim Sutton wrote:
> 
>> * centralised management of the license by QGIS.org <http://QGIS.org>
>> achieved by asking all past and future contributors to cede their
>> copyrighted works to QGIS.org <http://QGIS.org>)
> 
> thins implies the risk of being bought by a company, see MySQL, right?

I don’t think so - we can put in place the safeguards in our statutes to prevent this if needed. Simple wording like ‘If we ever want to sell to ESRI, all voting members must agree’.


Regards

Tim


> Cheers.
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