[Qgis-user] QGIS Desktop Licensing in a professional organization

[Alexandre Neto]

Hello Willem,

I don't think having proprietary drivers on your machines will break any
licencing. Their usage are limited to read only or in some cases it allows
writing, but limited to a certain size.

If you really want to have an installation without those drivers, with the
internet installer, while connected to the internet, you can download all
the necessary packages, without installing it. So, if you choose full-free
it will download everything to a folder without the proprietary drivers.

Once that is done, you can put both the installer and the folder in a usb
pen or a network drive (that can obviously be scanned for security issues)
and run the installer offline on any machines you need.

I hope it helped,

Alexandre Neto




A quinta, 5/09/2024, 13:13, Willem Jenniskens via QGIS-User <
qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> escreveu:

> Hello,
>
> I have a question about the QGIS Desktop Licensing in a professional
> organization.
>
> On the download page ("https://qgis.org/download/") is mentioned:
>
> "The OSGeo4W installer is recommended for regular users or organization
> deployments."
>
> So that (https://qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.34.10-1.msi) is the
> version I want. However, on "
> https://qgis.org/resources/installation-guide/#osgeo4w-installer" is
> mentioned:
>
> "The packages listed in the above table only install the necessary
> dependencies needed to run QGIS. Corresponding to those packages there are
> also meta packages with the suffix -full-free and -full. The
> -full-free contains additional optional dependencies that some popular (not
> included in the default QGIS install) plugins use. The -full includes
> everything from -full-free and also adds proprietary extensions like Oracle
> drivers, ECW and MrSID. The Express installs reference the corresponding
> -full variant and the standalone installers are also made from these
> OSGeo4W package sets."
>
> So, if I read that correctly, it means that the OSGeo4W Installer (which I
> want) is based on the "-full" variant, right? That means it includes
> proprietary extensions like Oracle drivers, ECW and MrSID. We need of
> course to comply with licensing terms and since we are not planning on
> using those proprietary extensions, I was wondering if there is a way to
> get a .msi installer without those extensions. Our company does not allow
> creating our own .msi's and using network installers is also prohibited.
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
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