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

[Michał Drożdż]

Removing plugins with adds from official repository is not a good idea as
we will force users for browsing across many sources. It would be confusing
for newbes. Flags seems to be farir enaugh.
Sooner or later QGIS will face the Wordpress issues (licence is the same).
It is the matter of time when we will see "Premium featuress" of popular
plugins for extra fee

pt., 15 mar 2019 o 09:25 Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com> napisał(a):

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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