[QGIS-Developer] Requiring QGIS plugins that requires paid subscription and.or authentication to be tagged as such?

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

I believe this has been discussed. Was there any conclusion on this?

Just came across a Toot about a AI powered QGIS plugin (that I won't 
name to avoid advertizing it). In its description nothing mentions that 
it requires a paid subscription. Shouldn't we require that it is at 
least mentioned in the "about" metadata, and possibly a dedicated 
metadata item like "payment_required=true/false/partial" that could be 
used for filtering. And while we're at it 
"authentication_required=true/false/partial"  for plugins where payment 
is not needed but you need to have credentials one way or another (a 
plugin I'm developing for a French local administration would fall in 
that category. a few open web services but most requiring to be 
authorized by the administration)

Even

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