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

[Marco Bernasocchi]

:/
Maybe we need to make an how to publish to Plos ONE tutorial 😉

Jokes appart maybe we need to simplify things on the website regarding
licensing...

cheers Marco

On Fri, 5 Nov 2021, 16:50 Anita Graser, <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: Copywrite creative commons 4.0 request
> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:48:17 +0100
> From: Anita Graser <anita at qgis.org> <anita at qgis.org>
> To: Samantha Richardson <Samantha.Richardson at hull.ac.uk>
> <Samantha.Richardson at hull.ac.uk>
> CC: QGIS PSC List <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Dear Samantha,
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> 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
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> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2018-February/005970.html
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> and
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> https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/faq/index.html#i-created-a-map-with-qgis-do-i-have-to-mention-qgis
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> I hope this clarifies the issue. If not, please contact us so we can
> jointly solve this issue.
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> Regards,
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> Anita
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> On 05.11.2021 16:18, 'Samantha Richardson' via public psc group wrote:
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> Dear QGIS team,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Kind regards,
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> Samantha
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> Samantha Richardson
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> Faculty of Science and Engineering
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> University of Hull
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> HU6 7RX
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> email: samantha.richardson at hull.ac.uk
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