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

[Even Rouault]

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

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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