[Qgis-user] Copyright issues and credits of the base maps provided in the Quickmapservice plugin in QGIS

[Summer Y]

Dear all,

I have used QGIS to create maps for a paper that I am going to submit to an
academic journal. However, the journal requires that all figures should be
under cc-by 4.0 license, while on the QGIS website, it is stated that "If
not stated otherwise, all content is licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (CC BY-SA)". Does that mean I cannot use
maps created by QGIS for this journal or any other open-source journal that
require the same license?

Also, I know that every user has to look for copyright permission and how
to cite every base map respectively. I have used the ESRI satellite as the
base map but found this
http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=10df2279f9684e4a9f6a7f08febac2a9
Does that mean that I cannot use these maps as the base maps if I am using
QGIS instead of ArcGIS?

I am new here so I am not quite sure if that's the right way to ask
questions regarding QGIS. If it is inappropriate, please ignore my email.
Or, does anyone know how can I contact the QGIS team directly?

Thanks a million in advance.

Best wishes,
Summer
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