Through the various considerations on this topic there are two positions the seems contradictory to me:
"I did some research on this, and the conclusion is that import is functionally and legally equivalent to linking during compilation, so everything that imports qgis must be GPL." [1] then "you can import/link proprietary code into gpl code, provided you have a license to do it." They probably mean different things and they're not in contradiction. Being an important point to me, could you help in understanding it? thanks a lot, Giovanni [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2012-March/018976.html [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2012-March/019000.html 2012/3/26 G. Allegri <[email protected]> > I think you're right but watch the reality from a worldwide point of view. > I work mostly with foreign countries, not EU/USA. National offices and > agencies budgets are far beyond the license fees, so they don't care for it > very much. They pay yearly for something that already do the work they > need, without having to do contracts for development, define requirements, > etc. > This is the reality. In my courses, even those based on ESRI software, I > always introduce FOSS solutions. Sometimes it raises interest, most of > times they don't care. They want the job done, and they don't pay for the > license. That's it. > > Anyway, if I wouldn't think that (most) of times a free solution could be > the best way, I wouldn't be here to talk about it ;) > > giovanni > > > > 2012/3/26 Sandro Santilli <[email protected]> > >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 03:31:53PM +0200, G. Allegri wrote: >> >> > I totally agree with you, but reality is a bit different. Many agencies, >> > corporates, etc. are not considering to leave they're infrastructure. >> >> It's their choice, they'll have to bear the consequences of that. >> >> > I suggest solutions to interoperate, not to switch the whole thing. >> >> What I'm saying is that it just costs more. And rightly so. >> It is no interest of the free software users to make it any cheaper, IMHO. >> >> > It would be easier, and a lot cheeper, if everybody talked one language. >> >> +1 >> >> > But we have hundreads of languages in the world, and we have to deal >> with >> > this. >> >> People grow up learning the language of their mothers. >> Nobody has to pay a license to _use_ that language. >> And anyone can learn. >> We're really not talking about the same thing. >> >> --strk; >> > >
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