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QGIS, officially named QGIS.ORG, was founded in June 2002 by Gary Sherman. It is an active company located in Switzerland. The organization operates in the cartography, geographic information system, and open-source software industries. QGIS is both a company and a product, with the product being parented by the company.
The software, previously known as Quantum GIS or alias Quantum GIS, is written in C++ and Python. It is licensed under the GNU GPL 2 and has platforms that include Microsoft Windows, X86, ARM architecture, and X86-64.
QGIS's board of directors consists of Marco Bernasocchi, Alessandro Pasotti, and Andreas Neumann. The company has competitors such as SuperMap Software Co., Esri, and ArcGIS. The first release of the QGIS software was introduced in June 2002.
