[QGIS-Developer] QGIS plugin in private GitHub repository.

Luís Miguel Royo Pérez luis.miguel.royo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 16:57:33 PDT 2018


Thank you, Tim. I'm aware about this points you're remarking.

You made me think a lot about the bussines model to follow. I appreciate
that.

Kind Regards.





El jue., 22 mar. 2018 23:24, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> escribió:

> Hi
>
>  I am not a lawyer but can make a few brief comments:
>
> * You are allowed to sell you plugin, no problem with that
> * Anyone you supply the plugin to should be also given access to the full
> source code (i.e no .pyc only distributions)
> * The source code should be published under the GPL 3 license
> * Anyone you thus sell your plugin to would be able to redistribute the
> plugin (even as far as publishing it for free in another plugin repository)
>
> So the model most follow is to sell support rather than the code itself -
> perhaps you would like to follow a similar approach?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
> On 22 Mar 2018, at 23:47, Luís Miguel Royo Pérez <
> luis.miguel.royo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I must apologize, I wasn't clear enough. I want to sell this plugin,
> that's why I want a private repository, and control who is downloading the
> plugin.
>
> So, if I understood correctly meanwhile I respect the structure of a
> canonical QGIS repository in GitHub, I will be able to connect with the
> repo from QGIS plugin manager, rigth?
>
> Thanks a lot for your replies.
>
> El jue., 22 mar. 2018 21:14, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> escribió:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On 22 Mar 2018, at 21:14, Luís Miguel Royo Pérez <
>> luis.miguel.royo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm wondering if I can set up a private repository with GitHub in order
>> to share my QGIS plugins.
>>
>>
>> Sure why not? As long as you share the source of the people you
>> distribute the plugins to you should be fine. Why not just share it
>> publicly though? Also you will not be able to post your plugin to the QGIS
>> plugin repo unless the source code, tracker etc. are also public.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> Thanks per advance.
>>
>> --
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>> *Tim Sutton*
>>
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> *Tim Sutton*
>
> *Co-founder:* Kartoza
> *Project chair:* QGIS.org
>
> Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source:
>
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> Geospatial web development
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