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

[Nathan Woodrow]

>> I think discussions of selling QGIS to the highest bidder are just
adding fearmongering into the discussion : I cant see any way that someone
could achieve that within our current governance structures, nor can I
think of anyone in our developer community who might actually be
entertaining such an idea.

Yes let's not bring this up because it will never happen so we don't want
to start that kind of rumor into the community.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 4:30 AM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, 16:53 Paolo Cavallini, <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim
>>
>> On 17/10/19 17:49, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> > 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’.
>>
>> sorry, this seems very weak to me. What would be the advantage of it?
>> AFAICT, only the greater freedom to change the licence at will.
>>
>
> Yes that is exactly my point. The point of it would be that we have the
> mechanism to change our license e.g. to add an exception for distribution
> on the apple store if we want to. We have the flexibilility to change any
> part of our code base but somehow we don't have the same freedom over our
> license.
>
> Who knows in the future what technology will bring and what delivery
> mechanisms will exist that our users gravitate towards? We need to be able
> to meet there where they use their devices and being able to make (with
> consensus) tweaks to our license is vital to support that.
>
> I think discussions of selling QGIS to the highest bidder are just adding
> fearmongering into the discussion : I cant see any way that someone could
> achieve that within our current governance structures, nor can I think of
> anyone in our developer community who might actually be entertaining such
> an idea.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> Cheers.
>>
>> --
>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
>> QGIS.ORG Chair:
>> http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/
>>
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