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

[Nyall Dawson]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 05:53, Summer Y <summeryeung0808 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

Just to clarify -- that notice is referring to content on the QGIS
**WEBSITE**, not content in or created by QGIS itself. It's purely
reflecting the license of the website.

> 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'm not a lawyer, but a client of mine looked into this a couple of
years back with the conclusion that using this layer in any non-ESRI
software application is breaking ESRI's terms of service.

Nyall


>
> 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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