Hello, I second Tim on both points.
Vincent On 02/12/2015 10:38, Tim Sutton wrote: > Hi Luigi > > >> On 02 Dec 2015, at 05:43, Luigi Pirelli <lui...@gmail.com >> <mailto:lui...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi qgis devs >> >> I just published the QTraffic plugin... It's a plugin developed for >> the Coimbra university (Portugal) that I finished some months ago. >> >> I had ethical problem publishing it, because it contain a windows >> executable (the algorithm developed by the University team) that I'not >> able to verify directly. >> I worked to convince to publish the code since the beginning of the >> project, but because it's a research project they are still in >> experimental phase testing and calibrating it. So they don't want to >> have a "official" release of the code before to have it deeply tested. >> Deep testing depends of accessibility of the plugin, so I published it. >> During Gran Canaria hackfest I asked to some core developer if it was >> correct to publish it, and all give me the ok. >> I'm still not sure of this decision, and at least I want to be >> transparent about this. >> >> I'm sincerely confident that the executable code (Fortran code) will >> be sooner or later published, what I don't know is when and in what >> form and with what license... but I'm confident that it will be a open >> license. >> >> please ask more info or do pressure to the official code >> maintainer(s): qtraffic_supp...@uc.pt <mailto:qtraffic_supp...@uc.pt> >> > > For my part I have concerns both from licensing and from exposing our > users to potential harm point of view. > > * In the first case (which is probably not as well defined) I don’t > think it is good to ship code from the official repo where the licensing > is indeterminate, and which potentially conflicts with QGIS licensing > itself. > * In the second case, shipping a binary from the official repo gives us > no opportunity to inspect the code to ensure that it is not doing > something potentially harmful to the users computer. > > My suggestion would be to publish it under a third party repo and > encourage users to test it from there. > > Regards > > Tim > > > >> Regards >> >> Luigi Pirelli >> >> ************************************************************************************************** >> * Boundless QGIS Support/Development: lpirelli AT boundlessgeo DOT com >> * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli >> * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli >> * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir >> * Mastering QGIS: >> https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis >> ************************************************************************************************** >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > > Tim Sutton > QGIS Project Steering Committee Member > t...@qgis.org <mailto:t...@qgis.org> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer