Bug report #3789

Please update license file

Added by Volker Fröhlich almost 14 years ago. Updated almost 6 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:Werner Macho
Category:Build/Install
Affected QGIS version:master Regression?:No
Operating System:All Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:end of life
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:13847

Description

Referencing to #3432 and r15321, please update CODING to a copy of the GPL3. Please take care of including a copy with the up-to-date FSF postal address, as the current file is outdated.

History

#1 Updated by Volker Fröhlich over 13 years ago

  • Assignee deleted (nobody -)
  • Pull Request or Patch supplied set to No

#2 Updated by Sandro Santilli over 13 years ago

  • Priority changed from Low to High
  • Must fix changed from No to Yes

Shouldn't also source file headers be updated ? They contain GPL2+ notices.
It seems this failed for 1.7.0, and is still unfixed in master git.
I took the liberty of raising priority from low to high (isn't it ?).

Note that ohloh stats have "unknown" as the licensing terms, I wanted to update but the ambiguity of in the source code doesn't make that straightforward.

#3 Updated by Alexander Bruy over 13 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 1.7.0 to Version 1.7.1

#4 Updated by Tim Sutton over 13 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 1.7.1 to Version 1.7.2

#5 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 13 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 1.7.2 to Version 1.7.3

#6 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 13 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 1.7.3 to Version 1.7.4

#7 Updated by Paolo Cavallini almost 13 years ago

  • Crashes QGIS or corrupts data set to No
  • Priority changed from High to Severe/Regression
  • Affected QGIS version set to master

#8 Updated by Paolo Cavallini almost 13 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 1.7.4 to Version 1.8.0

#9 Updated by Jürgen Fischer almost 13 years ago

  • Assignee set to Werner Macho

#10 Updated by Paolo Cavallini almost 13 years ago

Now qgis has been accepted in Debian main: can this be closed?

#11 Updated by Jürgen Fischer almost 13 years ago

Paolo Cavallini wrote:

Now qgis has been accepted in Debian main: can this be closed?

Probably not - or did we change anything to fix this?

#12 Updated by Paolo Cavallini almost 13 years ago

  • Priority changed from Severe/Regression to Normal

Now it has been accepted, so no block. However, we probably need a team to evaluate licences before adding new code blocks

#13 Updated by Werner Macho almost 13 years ago

I wanted to start with this on monday anyway (with volter). First I have to find out what is really necessary to get the license issue fixed..
Think I gotta search through all files and decide which license it should have..
Probably we should provide something like a suggested standard header for new files getting added to the project then..

#14 Updated by Paolo Cavallini over 12 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 1.8.0 to Version 2.0.0

#15 Updated by Daniel Vaz over 11 years ago

This issue still exists? It would a good news release QGIS version 2.0.0 under GPLv3 terms.

#16 Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 11 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - High Priority

#17 Updated by Sandro Santilli almost 10 years ago

should this be closed or is there any real plan to switch to GPL3+ ?

#18 Updated by Werner Macho almost 10 years ago

discussed a lot of times - new parts are GP3+ but I guess there are still parts with GPL2 - and without allowance of writer we cannot do anything.
To be honest I believe QGIS is now GPL3+ but I really don't know. Let's just say it's GPL :)

#19 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 8 years ago

  • Regression? set to No
  • Easy fix? set to No

#20 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed
  • Resolution set to end of life

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