Dear all, I have a question concerning the legal aspects of QGIS plugins:
Some time ago there was a question on gis.stackexchange about how to generate equal sized polygons along a line: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/173127/generating-equal-sized-polygons-along-line-with-pyqgis As I needed the functionality,too I wrote a QGIS plugin for myself which uses the logic provided in the answers. Now i would like to give others the opportunity to use this plugin,too, but don't know if ESRI has some sort of Intellectual Property for a tool like this. There is the ESRI tool "Creating strip map index features" http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/map/page-layouts/creating-strip-map-index-features.htm I guess in general there are a lot of tools that are available in ESRI products as well as in other OpenSource GIS solutions like gvSIG, OpenJump or QGIS (buffer, dissolve and so on). I just want to make sure that it's ok to publish a QGIS plugin like mine. So my question is: Can you tell me if a QGIS plugin which creates polygons along a line (as the ESRI strip map index feature tool does) would violate ESRI's intelletual properties? best wishes, Thomas
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