Hi > On 10 Sep 2015, at 23:23, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> wrote: > > Il 10/09/2015 17:39, Crispin Cooper ha scritto: >> Hi Vincent, thank you for your reply. >> >> The QGIS plugin would not be essential to the external process as sDNA works >> on its own anyway. The external process would however be essential to the >> QGIS plugin. >> >> Is there any sort of official position on this, e.g. from the steering >> committee? > > Hi, > I do not think we have an official position: we stick to the GPL > licence. I admit that the interpretation may be sometimes tricky, but in > these case it's only a lawyer (or better a judge) that can give a > definite answer. > In general I thin Vincent has outlined the prevailing interpretation.
Yes the linking and licensing restrictions of GPL comes up many time but can be solved in edge cases - you might want to look at the (now defunct) SQLAnywhere plugin that was contributed (you will need to look back in Git history to find it)…they managed to find a way to deal with creating a GPL stubb that creates a socket connection to their proprietary db backend if I recall correctly. Marco Hugentobler has often said in response to these kind of questions (and I agree) that the GPL creates a platform that encourages sharing in two directions and when you weigh up the license against others in those simple terms it still seems like a good choice even if in some edge cases it actually means we lose potentially interesting contributions. Regards Tim > All the best. > > -- > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu > QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer — Tim Sutton Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source: * Desktop GIS programming services * Geospatial web development * GIS Training * Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial
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