My bad, it's a bad translation on my part. I though "gratuit" in French translated to free (free of charges). I'm totally agree with you. That will teach me to give my opinion in the language if Shakespeare.
Le jeu. 7 janv. 2021 à 13:55, Stefan Steiger <stei...@cor-management.ch> a écrit : > >> As a user and employee of a French administration, I think what is > >> proposed would be an excellent reminder. Open source is not free. > > > > Wrong on so many levels. > > > > First: GPL = Free Software > > So since the license of QGIS is GPL, it’s free software. > > “Free Software” means that along with the software, you get the source > code for free, included in that is the freedom to change and redistribute > it. > > Free as in Freedom. That does not mean it’s gratis. > > > > Second: “OpenSource” is not the same as 'Free Software' > > “OpenSource” merely means you have the source. > > It doesn’t mean you’re allowed to change or redistribute it. > > It also doesn’t mean it’s gratis. > > So “OpenSource” is much worse than GPL./ 'Free Software'. > > > > Third misconception: > > Free (as in freedom) doesn’t mean it’s gratis. > > It just means you have the freedom to alter and redistribute the software, > provided you abide by the license’s requirements, which means granting the > same right to others. > > It also doesn’t mean somebody else does your work for you, or pays > somebody else to do your work for you. > > Therefore QGIS is indeed free, just not gratis. > > > > What you mean to say is that Free is not Gratis. > > That’s a truism/platitude. > > > > Also, if you use commercial software, you pay far more for the same, and > you don’t have ANY guarantee that ANY bug is fixed, even if you can pay. > > You also cannot usually pay anyone else than the original company to do > some work on it, even if somebody else could do the same work far cheaper. > > With commercial software, you also don’t have any guarantee that the > product isn’t discontinued tomorrow, or taken into a completely different > direction. > > > > As with plugins: > > As long as they are NOT distributed with the software BY DEFAULT, they > don’t necessarily have to abide by the GPL. > > As long as you only use it internally (e.g. on a WebServer), you don’t > have to abide by the terms of the GPL (the Affero > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License>/Application-Service-Provider > loophole). > > > > > > > > *Von:* QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> *Im > Auftrag von *JD L > *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2021 10:10 > *An:* Matthias Kuhn <matth...@opengis.ch> > *Cc:* qgis-developer <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> > *Betreff:* Re: [QGIS-Developer] Stale bot and older requests/issues - > possible enhancement > > > > Hi > > As a user and employee of a French administration, I think what is proposed > would be an excellent reminder. Open source is not free. > > > > Le jeu. 7 janv. 2021 à 09:33, Matthias Kuhn <matth...@opengis.ch> a > écrit : > > Hi Nyall, > > > > I would also appreciate a hint like this. > > Maybe it could be done even more subtle by shortening this text and adding > a link to a page "learn how to make things progress"? > > > > I'd also very much appreciate the voices of users on this topic (that's a > classical "we don't only want to hear the dev side" topic). > > > > Matthias > > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:42 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi list, > > I've a small request to consider for stale bot and issues/feature > requests. I think that if a ticket remains open for say > 90 days > since the last comment, it would be nice if stale bot added a comment > like: > > "Unfortunately this bug/feature request has not seen any solution in > the recent QGIS release. If this fix/feature is important to you or > your organisation, you can help to fast-track its development by > sponsoring this work. To do so, contact one of the QGIS commercial > support providers listed at ... to discuss how you could fund this > functionality". > > I think it's a non-threatening, non-begging way to advise bug > reporters on the alternative ways they can fast track development in > QGIS. > > Thoughts? > > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >
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