<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Oct 2026 at 08:36, Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'd assume AI crawlers to be able to browse <br>
<a href="https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/</a> and grab the source code there. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>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)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Not <br>
doing anything is the best way to not be sucked (until bots come to suck <br>
directly in our brains, like in all good sci-fi movies). Computers & <br>
software have been a small parenthesis in the history of humanity. Time <br>
to move on to something else :-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Oh definitely. In my next career I won't touch a computer or anything tech related at all. 🙃 </div><div><br></div><div>Nyall</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Le 12/10/2026 à 23:55, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer a écrit :<br>
> Hi list,<br>
><br>
> Maybe I'm just old and jaded, but I'm being increasingly troubled by <br>
> the likelihood that any code I push to a public repository (regardless <br>
> of where that code is hosted) is just going on to fuel the coming <br>
> apocalypse 😂.<br>
><br>
> We currently have a requirement that plugins must have a public code <br>
> repository before they can be published on the plugin repo. Would <br>
> dropping this requirement be considered?<br>
><br>
> There's nothing in the GPL itself which mandates this. The code will <br>
> still be available in the plugin zip download, which satisfies that <br>
> license.<br>
><br>
> Nyall<br>
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