Hi Stefan, On Thu, 07. Jan 2021 at 12:55:22 +0000, Stefan Steiger wrote: > Also, if you use commercial software,
you probably meant to say proprietary software - as you correctly said free software is not required to be free of charge and hence can be commercial too. > As with plugins: > As long as they are NOT distributed with the software BY DEFAULT, they don’t > necessarily have to abide by the GPL. If they are derived from GPL software they also have to be GPL - and most QGIS plugins have no use without QGIS. > As long as you only use it internally (e.g. on a WebServer), you don’t have > to abide by the terms of the GPL (the > Affero<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License>/Application-Service-Provider > loophole). You always have to abide the license terms - just if you don't redistribute, many restrictions don't apply. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden https://www.norbit.de QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode
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