On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 2:36 PM Even Rouault <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > A very small nibble: What about python code embedded in the project ? > > > > That is a good question where I don't know the answer. It might be > > subject to the GPL license - but not sure. I would be interested to hear > > other people's opinion on this particular case. > > Huh, that becomes involved... In all logic, conveying code through a .py > file > or a .qgz doesn't change the fact that it is code, so I'd expect licensing > rules to also apply to it. So if that Python code uses QGIS API, it is > probably to be under the GPL (but that only affects those code snippets, > not > the rest of the project). > > Right, but, by distributing a project .QGS I'm basically distributing the sources, and that satisfies one of the most important obligations of the GPL (even if it is zipped in a .QGZ, the sources are just one click/shell-command away). Even if I wanted to distribute my project with another license, I would be still distributing the source code with it. The same applies to python code snippets embedded in a project. -- Alessandro Pasotti w3: www.itopen.it
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