I think we already have this kind of discussion once.
Victor's proposition arise and the point was that it only makes sense if
the plugin doest not fully rely on the external binaries. If it's
totally depending on it, then I believe the 3rd party repo is the most
appropriate way.
my 2 cents too
On 12/02/2015 10:51 AM, Victor Olaya wrote:
Maybe another option is to publish the plugin without the binaries, and
leave the user the task of installing and configuring that separately.
So all the code of the plugin itself is available, but then it relies on
a 3rd party application that is not open, but that we are not shipping.
my 2 cents
2015-12-02 10:38 GMT+01:00 Tim Sutton <t...@qgis.org <mailto:t...@qgis.org>>:
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
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