Thanks Even for this clear explanation.
We've been at this discussion before. Suddenly some journal publishers
started to refuse submissions when parts of the content (e.g. images,
maps, etc.) was created/generated from QGIS. I don't know who came up
with this strange idea that the license from the software propagates to
the content produced with the software.
Andreas
On 2019-10-30 12:59, Even Rouault wrote:
On mercredi 30 octobre 2019 12:31:45 CET Bo Victor Thomsen wrote:
Hi list -
During a university lecture about QGIS and licensing (GPL) I got a
question about QGIS projects.
Can a project be copyrighted or licensed differently from QGIS ? We are
not talking about plugins - they are always under the same license af
QGIS, namely GPL.
But what about the QGIS projects ? Same license or copyrigt af QGIS
itself. Or what ??
The GPL license mostly sets constraints about redistribution, not use. So
whatever your produce with QGIS, data, projects, styles, etc you can decide
freely what you do with it: public domain, open data, or whatever license you
see fit (*)
This is covered by the official GPL FAQ:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLOutput
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#WhatCaseIsOutputGPL
Even
(*) if your projects deals with other people data, then the constraints of
that data might have consequence on your project, but that doesn't come from
QGIS itself.
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