The poll is over and I have a problem. YES: 20 and NO: 15.
There are 10 users who voted YES and joined this forum the same day the poll started and all of them have 0 post on this forum. 2 of them are qtVlm developers and I guess the rest of them are OP/qtVlm users. No problem with this but...
Most active openplotter users of this forum and all moderators and administrators have voted NO. There is 1 user who voted NO with 0 post too. I have to confess that initially I voted YES but I changed to NO after reading a post of shark24 who made me remind why we are doing this. It seemed to me a good idea to include an alternative to opencpn to complement and improve features but it is true that we must focus on improving open-source options when they are available instead of promote privative or closed options. As seandepagnier said, opencpn developers have plans to add mbtiles and improve grib and weather routing management and having another app doing this it could demotivate opencpn development.
So, as we need a solomonic decision, we have decided not to include qtVlm by default in openplotter but make it ready to run qtVlm installing all needed packages or dependencies and adding a note on documentation for users who want to install and run qtVlm by themselves.
I know some users will not like this, sorry, we could revise this in the future. qtVlm made his decision closing the source and it must be respected but that has pros an cons. Probably they earn more money now and that is good for them but loosing support from open-source community was a natural consequence that they should be ready for. They have contracts with companies that they can not break and I have a contract with you that I am not going to break either. OP needs the active users and contributors of this forum and it can not afford to lose them.
Peace and sail
There are 10 users who voted YES and joined this forum the same day the poll started and all of them have 0 post on this forum. 2 of them are qtVlm developers and I guess the rest of them are OP/qtVlm users. No problem with this but...
Most active openplotter users of this forum and all moderators and administrators have voted NO. There is 1 user who voted NO with 0 post too. I have to confess that initially I voted YES but I changed to NO after reading a post of shark24 who made me remind why we are doing this. It seemed to me a good idea to include an alternative to opencpn to complement and improve features but it is true that we must focus on improving open-source options when they are available instead of promote privative or closed options. As seandepagnier said, opencpn developers have plans to add mbtiles and improve grib and weather routing management and having another app doing this it could demotivate opencpn development.
So, as we need a solomonic decision, we have decided not to include qtVlm by default in openplotter but make it ready to run qtVlm installing all needed packages or dependencies and adding a note on documentation for users who want to install and run qtVlm by themselves.
I know some users will not like this, sorry, we could revise this in the future. qtVlm made his decision closing the source and it must be respected but that has pros an cons. Probably they earn more money now and that is good for them but loosing support from open-source community was a natural consequence that they should be ready for. They have contracts with companies that they can not break and I have a contract with you that I am not going to break either. OP needs the active users and contributors of this forum and it can not afford to lose them.
Peace and sail