[Qgis-developer] Plugin repo: status

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi,

I don't think it is possible for us to set up the structures to prevent
this from happening.
Once we gain knowledge of such a situation, I think that we are obliged
to remove these from the repository as we cannot promote TOS conflicts
as a project.

There would of course still be an option to have
 * somebody set up a private repository providing the problematic plugins
 * deliver the plugins without problematic services (e.g. google)
configured and give information to the user about how he can add these
manually.

These two options would take the QGIS project out of the line and hand
the responsibility to the user.

We could still introduce a "legal note" like proposed by Werner and add
a "if you spot a legal problem with this plugin please send a note to
the plugin author and the repository manager.".

Matthias

On 01/20/2015 12:54 PM, Werner Macho wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Basically I don't care about having plugins with "legal issues".
> The only question for me is, is QGIS as a Project liable for serving
> this plugins in the official repository?
>
> If we (as Project) can say: "We are not responsible for any legality
> issues our hosted plugins may cause" I am ok with hosting them all :)
> The question with  howto check every plugin for such issues is
> secondary - I guess we already have some online ..
>
> just my 2¢
> regards
> Werner
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2015-01-20 12:43 GMT+01:00 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
>>> Il 20/01/2015 12:38, Nathan Woodrow ha scritto:
>>>> What legal issues?
>>> AFAIK storing locally data from Google and others breaks the licence.
>>> All the best.
>>>
>>
>> Using my GeoCoding[1] plugin with Google's geocoding API also doesn't
>> respect TOS, but you can still use it with nominatim (OSM) geocoder.
>>
>> Other geocoding plugins probably suffer from the same issue.
>>
>>
>> [1] https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/GeoCoding/
>>
>> --
>> Alessandro Pasotti
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