qgis/QGIS

QGIS

Professional desktop GIS.

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“QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)” — from the project

The license, in plain English

License
GPL 2.0 · OSI-approved
Use it at work?
Yes — run it, modify it, sell services around it.
Share your changes?
Only if you distribute the software; then your changes must be GPL too. Running it on your own servers is fine.

Our reading, not legal advice — the repository’s LICENSE file is the source of truth.

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