Hi,

On 30.07.20 21:00, [email protected] wrote:
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:08:45 -0700
> From: chris hermansen <[email protected]>
> To: Summer Y <[email protected]>
> Cc: qgis-user <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Copyright issues and credits of the base maps
>       provided in the Quickmapservice plugin in QGIS
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> Summer and list,
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:53 PM Summer Y <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have used QGIS to create maps for a paper that I am going to submit to
>> an academic journal. However, the journal requires that all figures should
>> be under cc-by 4.0 license, while on the QGIS website, it is stated that
>> "If not stated otherwise, all content is licensed under Creative Commons
>> Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (CC BY-SA)". Does that mean I cannot use
>> maps created by QGIS for this journal or any other open-source journal that
>> require the same license?
>>
> Are you including any QGIS website content?  Specifically media or text?
> If not then you have no worries at that end (using QGIS to make output
> doesn't count; using material like images, data, text, videos from the QGIS
> site would probably count).
Here is the official answer
https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/faq/index.html#i-created-a-map-with-qgis-do-i-have-to-mention-qgis
>> I am new here so I am not quite sure if that's the right way to ask
>> questions regarding QGIS. If it is inappropriate, please ignore my email.
>> Or, does anyone know how can I contact the QGIS team directly?
>>
> In my opinion, for whatever that's worth, this is a good place to ask this
> kind of question.

The QGIS Team is everywhere :) you were spot on on asking here, thanks
everyone for the nice answers!

Cheers

Marco

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