Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Theoretical discussion: A QGIS paid plugin marketplace? (was: sponsored plugin)

2024-02-07 Thread DIF
Sebastian Gutwein via QGIS-Developer Envoyé : 7 février 2024 13:27 À : Tim Sutton Cc : qgis-psc ; qgis-developer Objet : Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Theoretical discussion: A QGIS paid plugin marketplace? (was: sponsored plugin) I want to say that I would like to see developers being fully

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Theoretical discussion: A QGIS paid plugin marketplace? (was: sponsored plugin)

2024-02-07 Thread Sebastian Gutwein via QGIS-Developer
I want to say that I would like to see developers being fully supported for their work on QGIS. As we know there are many ways to achieve this and paid plugins is one potentially viable and useful way. I have seen the Blender Marketplace mentioned a couple of times in this thread and I feel like it

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Theoretical discussion: A QGIS paid plugin marketplace? (was: sponsored plugin)

2024-02-06 Thread Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer
Hi Nyall and other commenters on the thread Personally I think it makes a lot of sense to allow payment for plugins via the official QGIS plugin repo. A couple of (maybe contentious) ideas: * can we put an Apple-like commission split so that QGIS.org takes 30% of money coming from it? That will l

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Theoretical discussion: A QGIS paid plugin marketplace? (was: sponsored plugin)

2024-02-04 Thread Alexandre Neto via QGIS-Developer
I would say, why not? Many other open source projects have opted by having "market places" and paid plugins (e.g. Blender, Wordpress). This did not stopped many developers to keep publishing free plugins, while allowed others to have an easy way to sell their work. Our plugin repository has now l

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Theoretical discussion: A QGIS paid plugin marketplace? (was: sponsored plugin)

2024-02-02 Thread Régis Haubourg via QGIS-Developer
Hi all, I have been sleeping over this thread a bit. We already have a lot of paid plugins and in the psc we try to contact vendors to have them aware of the GPL licence obligations. This is a lot of manual work, and this does not scale up obviously. Offering a marketplace in our plugin management

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Theoretical discussion: A QGIS paid plugin marketplace? (was: sponsored plugin)

2024-02-01 Thread João Gaspar via QGIS-Developer
Hi to all, why not have a similar approach to SLYR Community Version and a "Paid" Version? Nyall what is your experience of managing your plugin in both ways? Other tools as lastools and whitetoolbox have similar model, they give open core tools in their plugins and then if you want to use them