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

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Andreas,
thanks for your reply.

Il 18/03/20 17:25, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
> 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.

OK, so a different route from VLC. Would Qt open source licence allow this?

Cheers.

> 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?
> 
> Greetings,
> Andreas
> 
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 17:14, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     Il 17/03/20 14:29, Marco Bernasocchi ha scritto:
>     >> but IMHO the situation itself is wrong - we should not be held
>     hostage
>     >> by our own license. Our license choice was intended to ensure that
>     >> QGIS can be a GIS that everyone can use, and we should be actively
>     >> taking it to every platform that is in popular use.
>     > oh yes, you're so right. I know apple is not that beloved in the FOSS
>     > world, but I want to respect the user wish to use it and enable them
>     > with our great tools.
>     >> Thus I would like to raise the proposal that we assemble a list of
>     >> everyone who has made a contribution to the QGIS code base, and at
>     >> very least, run a poll to see how many would be amenable to a
>     >> modification of the license.
>     >
>     > I think it is a good point, and for sure the (probably only) clean way
>     > to solve this. In any case if we go that way, VLC has already gone
>     there
>     > so we can have a look at how they did it. [3][4]
>     >
>     >> From the poll results we will be able to see 1) are 100% of the
>     >> authors contactable and 2) what % of the codebase currently under GPL
>     >> could not be relicensed. 
> 
>     I agree with Tim, we should allow as many users as possible to use our
>     sw, as this is the main point about freedom. Of course, this should be
>     done in a way that does not limit the freedom of others, especially
>     those who choose to use fully free solutions.
>     What kind of licence modification are you thinking of? Just moving to
>     LGPL, like VLC?
>     Cheers.
>     -- 
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> Andreas Neumann
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