[Qgis-user] QGIS Licensing in Production Development

[Mustafa Cayci]

Dear QGIS Team,

I am planning to build a commercial solution for my customers that uses
QGIS together with an object detection model (YOLO). The idea is to:

Use QGIS as the main GIS platform / interface,
Integrate or call a YOLO-based object detection workflow (e.g., as a
plugin, script, or external service),
Package this as a solution that I sell to my customers (either as a service
or as software they install).

I would be grateful if you could clarify the following points:

Licensing and redistribution

QGIS is licensed under the GPL. Under what conditions may I bundle QGIS
with my own code and distribute it as part of a commercial offering?
If I write a QGIS plugin that uses YOLO (for example, a Python plugin
calling external inference code or a remote API), does this plugin also
need to be GPL-licensed, or can it be under a different license?
Are there specific requirements for how I should provide source code,
notices, or license information when distributing QGIS together with my own
software?

Commercial use and charging customers

Am I allowed to charge customers for installation, customization, training,
and ongoing support of a QGIS-based solution that includes my own
YOLO-based object detection tools?

Thank you very much for your time.
Mustafa
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