[QGIS-Developer] Copyright in a plugin?or idea?

2019-10-02 Thread Fran Raga
Hi, all Recently I found out about this plugin https://github.com/qgist/toolbargenerator, which was presented in the FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest. What surprised me is that this plugin has EXACTLY the same functionality as mine, implemented for QGIS 3 https://github.com/All4Gis/CustomToolBar , which I d

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Copyright in a plugin?or idea?

2019-10-02 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey, Ideas are a tricky one. There is no need to give someone else credit for an idea if you don't want to, even if you feel you had it first. It's a nice thing to do but not required by any means. You can copyright your code but that doesn't stop someone reimplementing your idea in a different

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Copyright in a plugin?or idea?

2019-10-02 Thread Fran Raga
Completely in agreement with you. Maybe it's my way of seeing things, I always like to put the source, the idea, or code that I have taken from other sites. For example the styles in the Load Qss plugin is the reference to FreeCad and for example in other projects the classes or code taken from ot

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Copyright in a plugin?or idea?

2019-10-04 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hola Francisco, On 02/10/19 13:56, Fran Raga wrote: > > Recently I found out about this > plugin https://github.com/qgist/toolbargenerator, which was presented in > the FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest. What surprised me is that this plugin has > EXACTLY the same functionality as mine, implemented for

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Copyright in a plugin?or idea?

2019-10-07 Thread Jonathan Moules
Ideas cannot be copyrighted and that's just fine - ideas are a dime a dozen; everyone has them all the time. But few people ever implement them. Which brings us to the crux of the issue - these were implemented so ideally should not have been duplicated? And not once but twice for a single aut