[Qgis-psc] [QGIS-Developer] PyQGIS Cookbook License

[Alexandre Neto]

Hi,

Although I think you can safely use and replicate any part of the
documentation, including code snippets, I think you spotted an important
issue.

I do believe we should add a licence to all our documentation. Maybe a
creative commons license.

I have included the PSC mailing list in this reply, maybe they already have
a position about this subject.

Alexandre Neto


A sexta, 2/07/2021, 18:30, Malte Ziebarth <ziebarth at gfz-potsdam.de>
escreveu:

> Dear all,
>
> first off, thank you all for all the great work that went into QGIS!
>
> I am currently writing a Python plugin that I intend to make publicly
> available in the plugin repository. I started developing the plugin by
> adapting the examples from the PyQGIS Cookbook, specifically this page:
>
>
> https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#writing-a-plugin
>
> Now the problem that I encountered with that is the license of the skeleton
> code (i.e. __init__.py and mainPlugin.py). The code does not actually
> contain
> a license header and the documentation page itself contains only the
> very general copyright information
>
> "© Copyright 2002-now, QGIS project. Last updated on Jul 02, 2021 09:02."
>
> with no further licensing information.
>
> I guess that the intention of this part of documentation is for people to
> have an easy start developing plugins which can then be contributed back
> to the community under GPL license. This is just what I am planning to
> do. However, trying to put this into a correct license header is currently
> giving me a bit of a headache.
>
> Maybe someone here in this mailing list has some advice about this issue,
> and maybe even the person/people who wrote this piece of code can clarify?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Kind regards
> Malte Ziebarth
>
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