[Qgis-psc] Fwd: Copywrite creative commons 4.0 request

[Anita Graser]

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Subject: 	Re: Copywrite creative commons 4.0 request
Date: 	Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:48:17 +0100
From: 	Anita Graser <anita at qgis.org>
To: 	Samantha Richardson <Samantha.Richardson at hull.ac.uk>
CC: 	QGIS PSC List <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>



Dear Samantha,


We have recently been contacted by several authors of papers submitted
to PLOS one, requesting an authorization for a special licence for their
mapping works created with QGIS. We are sure there is a misunderstanding
here: QGIS is free and open source software, released under GPLv2
licence. Therefore, all the code linking to it must have the same
licence, or a compatible one. Works created with it, however, can have
any licence the authors decide to assign, see


https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2018-February/005970.html


and


https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/faq/index.html#i-created-a-map-with-qgis-do-i-have-to-mention-qgis



I hope this clarifies the issue. If not, please contact us so we can
jointly solve this issue.

Regards,

Anita




On 05.11.2021 16:18, 'Samantha Richardson' via public psc group wrote:
>
> Dear QGIS team,
>
>
> I request permission for the open-access journal PLOS ONE to publish
> an image of a map I created using QGIS software under the Creative
> Commons Attribution License (CCAL) CC BY 4.0
> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please be aware that
> this license allows unrestricted use and distribution, even
> commercially, by third parties. Please reply and provide explicit
> written permission to publish the image of the map under a CC BY license.
>
>
> I have attached a form created by PLOS ONE to be used to obtain
> permissions, if you are happy for me to use the image created please
> return the completed form. Please let me know if you require any
> additional information.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Samantha
>
>
> Samantha Richardson
>
> Faculty of Science and Engineering
>
> University of Hull
>
> HU6 7RX
>
>
> email: samantha.richardson at hull.ac.uk
>
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