<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Luigi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div 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>> 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 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 tested.<br class="">Deep testing depends of accessibility of the plugin, so I 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 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><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For my part I have concerns both from licensing and from exposing our users to potential harm point of view.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* 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.</div><div class="">* 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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My suggestion would be to publish it under a third party repo and encourage users to test it from there.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Regards<br class=""><br class="">Luigi Pirelli<br class=""><br class="">**************************************************************************************************<br class="">* Boundless QGIS Support/Development: lpirelli AT boundlessgeo DOT com<br class="">* LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli" class="">https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli</a><br class="">* Stackexchange: <a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli" class="">http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli</a><br class="">* GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/luipir" class="">https://github.com/luipir</a><br class="">* Mastering QGIS:<br class=""><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis" class="">https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis</a><br class="">**************************************************************************************************<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-developer mailing list<br class="">Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer<br class="">Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><span><img height="60" width="60" apple-inline="yes" id="92637377-01BE-4909-A9FB-C028B72115DB" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DDEF9B12-67C3-4498-BD7D-EC3563CC35A4" class=""></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class="">QGIS Project Steering Committee Member<br class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>