Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Noli Sicad
Hi Marco, GPL does not require to publish changes / plugins to everyone. E.g. say you create a plugin for a contractor, if you give them the binary and a source tarball, it's all fine with GPL, and there is no requirement for you or the contractor to publish the plugin to the public. This is

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Noli On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Marco, GPL does not require to publish changes / plugins to everyone. E.g. say you create a plugin for a contractor, if you give them the binary and a source tarball, it's all fine with GPL, and there is no

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Marco Hugentobler
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 09.32:47 schrieb Noli Sicad: Hi Marco, GPL does not require to publish changes / plugins to everyone. E.g. say you create a plugin for a contractor, if you give them the binary and a source tarball, it's all fine with GPL, and there is no requirement for

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Noli Sicad
The GPL and LGPL only take effect on *distribution*. This means if you build software for in-house (e.g. to be used only within your organisation) there is no need to release the source code. So an organisation can pay a contractor to do work for them and never make it public. So, the

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Noli, On Thu, 17. Nov 2011 at 19:32:47 +1100, Noli Sicad wrote: GPL does not require to publish changes / plugins to everyone. E.g. say you create a plugin for a contractor, if you give them the binary and a source tarball, it's all fine with GPL, and there is no requirement for you or

Re: [Qgis-developer] Projection widget improvement

2011-11-17 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
On 2011-11-17 08:21, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all. I think the projection widget should be improved, by having the search filtering the projections rather than moving to the next matching (as it happens e.g. in the plugin list). Also, it would be good to have the search working in both

Re: [Qgis-developer] Teaching with Qgis

2011-11-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: What licenses are these released under? We should be so lucky. There's no mention of licenses so I shall assume they are copyright University of Maine and treat them with that in mind. I'm not sure there's even any obvious

Re: [Qgis-developer] Projection widget improvement

2011-11-17 Thread Werner Macho
Hi For me, for example: I would want to set the focus to the 'find' button as soon as you try to type something into the find-text input. Now I always find myself typing a code and then hitting enter without result (because 'apply' apparently has focus: you really have to click the find

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Noli Sicad
OK. I understand now. However, if you sell the plugin or give it to the third party, then this is consider - public release, right? Thanks for the clarification. Noli On 11/17/11, Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de wrote: Hi Noli, On Thu, 17. Nov 2011 at 19:32:47 +1100, Noli Sicad wrote: GPL does

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Charlie Sharpsteen
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: OK. I understand now. However, if you sell the plugin or give it to the third party, then this is consider - public release, right? Thanks for the clarification. Noli No, it is a release to that third party

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Marco Hugentobler
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 10.22:10 schrieb Noli Sicad: OK. I understand now. However, if you sell the plugin or give it to the third party, then this is consider - public release, right? I'm not 100% sure here, the GNU faq says: But if you release the modified version to the public

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread jr . morreale
While we are on this subject, I would advice the reading of the only source that matters : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html About plugin's licensing : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean to sum it up, you release your plugin under any other license recognized

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 03:38:07PM +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote: Projects like PostGIS and uDig are all under the LGPL PostGIS is GPL. --strk; () Free GIS Flash consultant/developer /\ http://strk.keybit.net/services.html ___

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread jr . morreale
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:03:56 +0100, Marco Hugentobler wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 10.22:10 schrieb Noli Sicad: OK. I understand now. However, if you sell the plugin or give it to the third party, then this is consider - public release, right? I'm not 100% sure here, the GNU faq

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Noli Sicad
However, if you sell the plugin or give it to the third party, then this is consider - public release, right? I'm not 100% sure here, the GNU faq says: But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:10:04AM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 03:38:07PM +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote: Projects like PostGIS and uDig are all under the LGPL PostGIS is GPL. Since we're at it, I could add that GEOS is LGPL. The healthiest of the two being

Re: [Qgis-developer] field calculator

2011-11-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi Paolo, Glad the users are happy with new labeling stuff and expression builder. I'm currently playing around with a few field calculator redesigns, mainly how I can add the new expression builder widget in there. I have started but don't have a ETA at the moment as I have a few other things

[Qgis-developer] Error in Rectangles ovals digitizing

2011-11-17 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all. I'm getting this error when attempting to rotate one rectangle or ellypse. Anyone confirms? All the best. === Errore durante l'esecuzione di codice Python: Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/paolo/.qgis/python/plugins/rectovalDigit/rotatetool.py, line 65, in

Re: [Qgis-developer] Error in Rectangles ovals digitizing

2011-11-17 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 17/11/2011 14:50, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto: Hi all. I'm getting this error when attempting to rotate one rectangle or ellypse. Anyone confirms? Found the cause: I did not select an item before activating the rotation tool. For some reason the popup did not com out. All the best, and

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi I think I already mentioned I actually did the work for this before as part of a 'first run' wizard (which could also be launched from a menu I guess). Actually it just did the steop of adding the user to the users map, but the others can be accommodated in the same way I think. I am

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2011/11/17 Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com: Hi I think I already mentioned I actually did the work for this before as part of a 'first run' wizard (which could also be launched from a menu I guess). Actually it just did the steop of adding the user to the users map, but the others can be

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: Hi 8-snip-- The user map page needs to have a separate view made just for the wizard which excludes all the navigation stuff  (maybe Alessandro can help with that?) so that

[Qgis-developer] Re: Teaching with Qgis

2011-11-17 Thread Bob English
Hi Barry, There is an education committee for OSGeo that has teaching materials. http://www.osgeo.org/education Also, you might contact Charlie Schweik (chair of the committee and email address on the page above), who I believe has used QGIS to teach at the graduate level at UMass in Amherst,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Redmine - organizing Qgis web clients projects

2011-11-17 Thread kimaidou
Hi all Thanks for your answers. I will have more time tomorrow to create the 2 projects and pass the sources through redmine. This week was a very busy one :( Thanks Tim for taking care of the reorganisation. Michael ___ Qgis-developer mailing list

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi 8-snip-- By the way if you are testing you need to reset showWelcomeWizard to 1 in ~/.config/QuantumGIS/QGIS.conf each time you run QGIS in order to see the wizard. I guess it should be added to the help menu too... Here is what it looks like

Re: [Qgis-developer] bugs instructions

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Dobias
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Marco Bernasocchi ma...@bernawebdesign.ch wrote: what if instead we change a bit the overview page of redmine. It is pretty useless now. and it would be a good place to give an overview of the process. Then we could link to it instead of directly to the issues.

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Dobias
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: I think I already mentioned I actually did the work for this before as part of a 'first run' wizard (which could also be launched from a menu I guess). Actually it just did the steop of adding the user to the users map,

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Jim Hammack
Martin, No, you are not the only one. I agree completely and I like your map canvas idea. Jim On 11/17/2011 10:15 AM, Martin Dobias wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Proposed attribute table UI redesign

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Dobias
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: Hi On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com wrote: 8-snip--- nice stuff. One more thing I have been thinking about is that we could do the search in a way the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Projection widget improvement

2011-11-17 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 17/11/2011 10:14, Werner Macho ha scritto: +1 for Richards suggestion .. I also always hit enter after entering http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4550 done, tanks Richard and Werner for ideas. Looks an easy and nice improvement. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini See: http://www.faunalia.it/pc

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread Camilo Polymeris
It would be any user getting their hands on this binary. If your client gives a copy to his friend then his friend has the right to the source (it doesn't mean that YOU have to the one sending the source). I understand it *does* mean that you have to be the one sending the source. If you

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 17/11/2011 17:15, Martin Dobias ha scritto: am I the only one here who thinks that 'first run' wizards (and tips on start) are bad for user experience? :-) Sniff! My nice wizardok I'll put it back in the

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Dobias
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: Sniff! My nice wizardok I'll put it back in the /dev/null where it came from. Personally I don't like lots of dialogs popping up everywhere so using the canvas space to show some information at start really does seem

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Dobias
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 17/11/2011 17:15, Martin Dobias ha scritto: am I the only one here who thinks that 'first run' wizards (and tips on start) are bad for user experience? :-) We are at least two. My suggestion was different:

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Gary Sherman
On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Tim Sutton wrote: kill a poor innocent little wizard That is against the law in most countries... -gary =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gary Sherman GeoApt LLC http://geoapt.com Chair, QGIS PSC Books: http://desktopgisbook.com http://qgisbook.com

[Qgis-developer] Re: Proposed attribute table UI redesign

2011-11-17 Thread Alister Hood
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:18:01 +0200 From: Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Proposed attribute table UI redesign To: Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com Cc: qgis-user qgis-u...@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Proposed attribute table UI redesign

2011-11-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Tim, Can I suggest adding an all columns item to the drop-down column selector, rather than removing it? All columns could be selected by default. yes - I would prefer that as well. Sometimes we have to deal with very large tables and often it would be good being able to restrict to a

[Qgis-developer] RE: Qgis-developer Digest, Vol 73, Issue 51

2011-11-17 Thread Alister Hood
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:32:29 + From: Camilo Polymeris cpolyme...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My! To: jr.morre...@enoreth.net Cc: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID:

Re: [Qgis-developer] statistic plugin in Polish

2011-11-17 Thread Borys Jurgiel
Dnia czwartek, 17 listopada 2011 o 17:32:53 Paolo Cavallini napisał(a): Hi all. I have been pointed out to an interesting plugin: http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=2t=6001st=0sk=tsd=asid=e3fd63389 5ba6354344fe265aa1632c7start=15 Does anybody knows more about it? Would it be possible to

Re: [Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL - LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-17 Thread MORREALE Jean Roc
Le 17/11/2011 23:19, Alister Hood a écrit : Sorry, Just to clarify, when I said dual licensing I obviously meant with a commercial license, not with LGPL. The use of commercial is not appropriate as the GPL also qualifies for it. Let's call it what it really is : closed. -Original

[Qgis-developer] Unique value renderer in New Symbology?

2011-11-17 Thread Gary Sherman
The New Symbology doesn't have a unique value renderer which is something that is used very frequently in some disciplines. A couple of questions for those of you fresh from the HF/planning session: 1. When will old symbology be removed? 2. Will there be a unique value renderer in new