[QGIS-Developer] Dropping requirement for public repos for plugins?

[Nyall Dawson]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2026 at 08:36, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> I'd assume AI crawlers to be able to browse
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/ and grab the source code there.


Right -- but that's much less likely then a bot slurping up all the public
repos from a git host. (or just having some built-in backdoor to do this,
eg in the case of copilot/github)


> Not
> doing anything is the best way to not be sucked (until bots come to suck
> directly in our brains, like in all good sci-fi movies). Computers &
> software have been a small parenthesis in the history of humanity. Time
> to move on to something else :-)
>

Oh definitely. In my next career I won't touch a computer or anything tech
related at all. 🙃

Nyall


>
> Le 12/10/2026 à 23:55, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer a écrit :
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Maybe I'm just old and jaded, but I'm being increasingly troubled by
> > the likelihood that any code I push to a public repository (regardless
> > of where that code is hosted) is just going on to fuel the coming
> > apocalypse 😂.
> >
> > We currently have a requirement that plugins must have a public code
> > repository before they can be published on the plugin repo. Would
> > dropping this requirement be considered?
> >
> > There's nothing in the GPL itself which mandates this. The code will
> > still be available in the plugin zip download, which satisfies that
> > license.
> >
> > Nyall
> >
> >
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