[Qgis-psc] PSC Meeting March

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Saber,

On Sun, 15. Mar 2020 at 11:24:18 +0000, Saber Razmjooei wrote:
> 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.

I don't think we can - practically - change the licences, because it needs
consent of all contributors.  I believe the only other occasion was Qt and that
was very early on and a prerequisite to starting distribution of QGIS at all
and there were very few contributors back then - maybe just Gary.

But isn't it Apple that restricts the distribution of GPL'd software anyway and
not our license?


Jürgen

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