[Qgis-developer] QTraffic: I would never accept a plugin that I'm author ; )

[Vincent Picavet (ml)]

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 <luipir at gmail.com
>> <mailto:luipir at 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_support at uc.pt <mailto:qtraffic_support at 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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