<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 02 Dec 2015, at 18:36, Luigi Pirelli <<a href="mailto:luipir@gmail.com" class="">luipir@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I agree all the comments done<br class=""><br class="">Our first way to distribute the plugin was a custom repo<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QTrafficmodel/QTrafficPluginRepository/master/emsure.xml" class="">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QTrafficmodel/QTrafficPluginRepository/master/emsure.xml</a><br class=""><br class="">and publishing in the official repo was a way to reach more users (not<br class="">used to configure custom repos)<br class=""><br class="">other solution would be to download the .exe after local installation<br class="">(but need more but simple code... and wasn't planned because was<br class="">planned to have code and license available)<br class=""><br class="">btw... I'll remove and I hope publishing it temporarily was a good way<br class="">to raise the problem.<br class=""><br class="">thank you for your patient<br class=""><br class="">cheers<br class=""><br class="">Luigi Pirelli<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks so much for the nice way you dealt with the Luigi!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 2 December 2015 at 11:01, Denis Rouzaud <<a href="mailto:denis.rouzaud@gmail.com" class="">denis.rouzaud@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I think we already have this kind of discussion once.<br class="">Victor's proposition arise and the point was that it only makes sense if the<br class="">plugin doest not fully rely on the external binaries. If it's totally<br class="">depending on it, then I believe the 3rd party repo is the most appropriate<br class="">way.<br class=""><br class="">my 2 cents too<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 12/02/2015 10:51 AM, Victor Olaya wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Maybe another option is to publish the plugin without the binaries, and<br class="">leave the user the task of installing and configuring that separately.<br class="">So all the code of the plugin itself is available, but then it relies on<br class="">a 3rd party application that is not open, but that we are not shipping.<br class=""><br class="">my 2 cents<br class=""><br class="">2015-12-02 10:38 GMT+01:00 Tim Sutton <<a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a><br class=""><<a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">mailto:tim@qgis.org</a>>>:<br class=""><br class=""> Hi Luigi<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> On 02 Dec 2015, at 05:43, Luigi Pirelli <<a href="mailto:luipir@gmail.com" class="">luipir@gmail.com</a><br class=""> <<a href="mailto:luipir@gmail.com" class="">mailto:luipir@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""> Hi qgis devs<br class=""><br class=""> I just published the QTraffic plugin... It's a plugin developed for<br class=""> the Coimbra university (Portugal) that I finished some months ago.<br class=""><br class=""> I had ethical problem publishing it, because it contain a windows<br class=""> executable (the algorithm developed by the University team) that<br class="">I'not<br class=""> able to verify directly.<br class=""> I worked to convince to publish the code since the beginning of the<br class=""> project, but because it's a research project they are still in<br class=""> experimental phase testing and calibrating it. So they don't want to<br class=""> have a "official" release of the code before to have it deeply<br class="">tested.<br class=""> Deep testing depends of accessibility of the plugin, so I<br class=""> published it.<br class=""> During Gran Canaria hackfest I asked to some core developer if it was<br class=""> correct to publish it, and all give me the ok.<br class=""> I'm still not sure of this decision, and at least I want to be<br class=""> transparent about this.<br class=""><br class=""> I'm sincerely confident that the executable code (Fortran code) will<br class=""> be sooner or later published, what I don't know is when and in what<br class=""> form and with what license... but I'm confident that it will be a<br class="">open<br class=""> license.<br class=""><br class=""> please ask more info or do pressure to the official code<br class=""> maintainer(s): <a href="mailto:qtraffic_support@uc.pt" class="">qtraffic_support@uc.pt</a> <<a href="mailto:qtraffic_support@uc.pt" class="">mailto:qtraffic_support@uc.pt</a>><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""> For my part I have concerns both from licensing and from exposing<br class=""> our users to potential harm point of view.<br class=""><br class=""> * In the first case (which is probably not as well defined) I don’t<br class=""> think it is good to ship code from the official repo where the<br class=""> licensing is indeterminate, and which potentially conflicts with<br class=""> QGIS licensing itself.<br class=""> * In the second case, shipping a binary from the official repo gives<br class=""> us no opportunity to inspect the code to ensure that it is not doing<br class=""> something potentially harmful to the users computer.<br class=""><br class=""> My suggestion would be to publish it under a third party repo and<br class=""> encourage users to test it from there.<br class=""><br class=""> Regards<br class=""><br class=""> Tim<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br 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