Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] legal aspects of QGIS plugins

2017-03-06 Thread Werner Macho
Hi Thomas, IMHO this is ja an applied usage of known spatial functions and algorithms. So my opinion is that there is no violation of "intelectual property". I mean if it would be possible to patent those "common" things nothing would be allowed and even other commercial GIS products could not imp

[OSGeo-Discuss] legal aspects of QGIS plugins

2017-03-06 Thread Thomas Baumann
Dear all, I have a question concerning the legal aspects of QGIS plugins: Some time ago there was a question on gis.stackexchange about how to generate equal sized polygons along a line: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/173127/generating-equal-sized-polygons-along-line-with-pyqgis As I n

[OSGeo-Discuss] [SoC] OSGeo - GSoC 2017: proactive students wanted!

2017-03-06 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
[ https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/soc/2017-March/003561.html] Dear OSGeo community, students, OSGeo has been selected as a mentor organization for the 2017 edition of GSoC! [1] *According to the Google Summer of Code 2017 Timeline [2]: February 27 - March 20 Potential student participants d