[Qgis-developer] GPL in the Tips (warning: license's bigotry inside)

2011-03-26 Thread MORREALE Jean Roc
Hi, I'm translating the Tips, this sentence caught my eye : The GPL places a restriction that any modifications you make must be made available to the Quantum GIS project This is misleading, you only have to share your modification if you distribute the binaries to somebody else. And even

Re: [Qgis-developer] GPL in the Tips (warning: license's bigotry inside)

2011-03-26 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Jean Roc, I would suggest to change this tip to something widely accepted, for instance: -- Quantum GIS 1.7 is released under the GNU General Public License [version 3, am I correct?? or version 3 or above?]. The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for