[Qgis-psc] PSC Meeting March

[Saber Razmjooei]

Hi Andreas,

In terms of opposition to QGIS for iOS, there are 2 issues to address:
1- Presence of any QGIS derived app on App Store, according to some black
and white interpretation of GPL, this might not be allowed. There has been
no prior cases, so it is up to the PSC to gauge the risk and come up with a
decision. In other similar situations, the issue was resolved by simply, an
addendum to the license to exempt the App Store by the project and
developers, so long as the derived apps are still compatible with the main
license.

2- QGIS for iOS: we have spent weeks to port QGIS and subsequently Input to
iOS platform. There is no restrictions for us and even for QGIS project to
acknowledge the fact that QGIS/Input can be installed on iOS platform. The
sticking point is App Store and there are other methods of installing apps
on iOS platform, but it will be an extra burden on users. There is no way,
we are going to throw away our work on the iOS platform and it will be a
loss to QGIS project too,  IMO.

In general, I would like to have a pragmatic solution (see Point 1:
providing an addendum to the GPL) to address the situation. There is also a
wider question for the PSC: to ensure QGIS remains relevant and the
licensing terms do not limit the project for future adaptation. For
example, with the new developments in Qt and WebAssembly, one can envisage
a day when QGIS can be run in a web browser. Is the licensing terms
sufficient enough to address future platforms/use-cases?

Kind regards
Saber


On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 22:41, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> Yes - I could also do the meeting in the afternoon. I work from home the
> coming days and I can interrupt my work during some time.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
> Am 13.03.20 um 23:19 schrieb Anita Graser:
>
> I think Tuesday should be fine. Can also do earlier in the day if needed.
>
> Regards,
> Anita
>
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2020, 18:14 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I agree with Marco: it would be useful to have a dedicated meeting to get
>> the AGM prepared. Could we do the meeting the coming Tuesday evening at
>> 20:00? Would this work for everybody? There are quite some extra things on
>> the AGM to vote on (binary plugins, environmental policy) - so that will
>> need some work.
>> Meanwhile, the financial auditing was done by Andreas Vonlaufen and
>> Andreas Voigt. Both would volunteer to do it another year. Their auditing
>> document can be found at the Google drive in Finances/Financial Auditing
>> Reports
>>
>> I will publish them with the report this weekend (preliminary, because
>> the AGM has to approve as well).
>>
>> We'd also need to discuss the IOS thing better. There is quite some
>> opposition to linking to the iOS version or our endorsement of any iOS QGIS
>> version. That needs to be discussed.
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback if you could make an ad-hoc meeting the coming
>> Tuesday evening. Otherwise, please suggest extra dates. But given that we
>> are not supposed to travel these days - I assume everyone would be at home
>> anyway.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>> Am 13.03.20 um 11:34 schrieb Marco Bernasocchi:
>>
>> Hi Jurgen, sorry, I missformulated, we said on the 3rd that we were
>> meeting in Den Bosch to get all the AGM thing going,  that is what I ment :)
>>
>> Too much corona ;)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> On 13.03.20 11:27, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marco,
>>
>> On Fri, 13. Mar 2020 at 09:42:55 +0100, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:
>>
>> yeah, but that will be in 1 month...
>>
>> we skipped the March one because we where going to do it in Den Bosch.
>>
>> Huh, but we had one in on the 3rd - and you were there.
>>
>>
>> Jürgen
>>
>>
>>
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