[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Question about a plugin. POC attached.

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

I havent looked at your code, but perhaps you could add to your original
message an explanation of why you don't just distribute it as a py /
uncompiled python source file?

Regards

Tim

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 6:48 PM Giordano Cetti via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Greetings to QGIS developers,
>
> I would greatly appreciate it if someone could check if the attached
> plugin complies with the licenses compared to the imported modules.
>
> In this specific attached plugin, all the source code is open, but the
> question is: what if it comes with the following file:
> *'djangorest/include/djangorest_compiled.py'* really compiled as a .pyd
> file? Would it violate the GPL license terms or is it just enough to be
> considered as an acceptable external process?
>
> The .pyd will just import QgsTask from qgis.core and use a session_path
> received as a text created by the open source part of the plugin
> using QgsProcessingUtils.
>
> The attached one is a very simple plugin made for this demonstration, you
> can click on the button, just type google.it, and it will download the
> 404 page found ( because it appends some string that google doesn't serve
> as content ). For user and password fields: just type anything, they are
> not used in the POC but there's still a check active on fields population.
> The only action the plugin will do is just a single pycurl GET request to
> the address specified.
>
> Any advice will be appreciated.
> Thanks
>
> *ATTACHMENT BLOCKED BY GOOGLE SCAN BECAUSE IT INCLUDES PYCURL AND CERTIFI
> LIBRARY SO I SHARE USING GOOGLE DRIVE LINK. I TESTED IT ONLY ON QGIS 3.10*
>
> *https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qS7h3LaZ6BlBAW3AItEjM5swpDocHbue/view?usp=sharing
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qS7h3LaZ6BlBAW3AItEjM5swpDocHbue/view?usp=sharing>*
>
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