[Qgis-psc] iOS links [was PSC Meeting March]

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 18 mars 2020 17:25:19 CET Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> From what I remember from the discussion yesterday, the idea is to stay
> with GPL, but add exceptions for distributions in app stores.
> 
> Tim correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Wasn't sure if this means a general exception for all existing and future
> (to come) app stores, or if we need to specifically mention them, e.g. iOS
> Apple app store (or however this thing is called). What if the terms of
> these app stores are totally against our values?

IHMO, the (pain of the) process of having all contributors accept to adding an 
exception to the GPL would be quite similar as completely changing license.
If that's considered, then switching to something non-copyleft like BSD, MIT 
or Apache, etc might be more relevant to avoid any future pain. See this post 
by Paul Ramsey:
http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2010/04/on-road-to-damascus-gpl-to-bsd.html (not 
necessarily his conclusion but the discussion on the merits of GPL vs other 
licenses)

Even

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