Hi,
Yes, I'd also like to focus on the original issue:
QGIS.ORG should only fund train tickets for short distance travels to
QGIS contributor meetings (and come up with a definition what "short
distance" means).
The other discussions about restricting usage of QGIS is a "can of
worms". The world is not black and white and some substantial amount of
FOSSGIS software originated from military backgrounds.
Andreas
Am 16.01.20 um 19:27 schrieb Even Rouault:
Regarding
prohibit the use of QGIS to the fossil-fuels industry.
and
...may I suggest to add GLOBAL PEACE & WAR issues to this QGIS
discussion on environmental questions ?
That's not a good idea IHMO. Don't mix licensing & ethics. Free software
licenses explicitly don't discriminate against fields of endehavor (see clause
6 of https://opensource.org/osd-annotated ), and adding discrimination is
currently generally considered as being a bad idea and likely not enforcable
in most juridictions, although they are debates around attempts at having
ethical open source licensing
(https://medium.com/@gmcgath/the-futility-of-the-hippocratic-license-b6a9ad981dec).
Things can get really complex. For example, regarding prohibiting the use to
the fossil-fuels industry, what about car makers: should they be considered as
being part of the fossil-fuel industry, and thus prohibited from using the
software and thus using proprietary mapping solution instead, etc etc. (Open
Source) licensing is (or is perceived to be) a sufficiently complex topic
already to not complicate it further.
Personal note: my contributions to FOSS4G related software all started because
I was able to use them in the context of working in the defense industry in my
past life: is it about peace or war ? both, depending from the point of view.
I should also remind, that for good or worse, the EPSG database that is
critical to proper CRS management in our software is mostly maintained by
IOGP.
The world is complex.
Even
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