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

[Denis Rouzaud]

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 <tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org>>:
>
>     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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>     Tim Sutton
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