[Qgis-psc] Ads in plugins -- allowed?

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Since people can always offer plugins via ZIP installer or 3rd-party
repository, should those ads-enabled plugins be left out of the main QGIS
plugins repository?

Would a new [ includes ads ] flag to identify such plugins in our plugin
manager be warranted here?

If we agree we are OK with non-intrusive ads are allowed, who will judge of
the decree of intrusiveness?

The discussion raised here seems worth discussing further :)

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 3:21 PM Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah I would be very against removing that page.  QGIS doesn't live in a
> vacuum and those commercial providers helps us even if indirectly via
> training people. Everyone is allowed to make money from qgis if they can
> work out how.
>
> Regards: ads in plugin IMO it isn't our call to make I don't think. It is
> a 3rd party plugin. Generally it is against the spirit I would say but
> really I don't think we should enforce a rule provided it isn't 1)
> intrusive 2) for bad stuff like viruses or phishing attack stuff.
>
> Ads in core qgis. never.
>
> On Fri., 15 Mar. 2019, 6:11 pm Tim Sutton, <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
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>> So yes, even get rid of the current commercial support page, because now
>> a small group of people decides if you are 'core committer' enough to be
>> there. It's 'smelly' if a selected "have's" decide over "don't have's".
>>
>> If we just do not have this page, we do not have to discuss this.
>>
>>
>> You want to remove the whole page? It is a regular ’selling’ point I use
>> when doing talks about QGIS : there is a rich ecosystem of support
>> providers you can choose from so you don’t need to worry about vendor lock
>> in, and you can easily find a provider by going to that page. Why not just
>> keep it and remove the categories if the categories are the issue.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
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>>
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