On Sun, 5 May 2019 13:37:09 +0200 Julien Lepiller wrote: > > I know JOSM has plugins. Do you know anything about the licenses of > > these plugins? Should we/do we need to compile all of them from > > sources? Can we stick with the default Plugin-Repository? I'm > > thinking about FSDG-compatibility. > > > > Björn > > > > > > > > That's a very good question! It doesn't look like they commit to only > free software. In fact here is what I found on the website: > > Note for plugin developers: If you wrote a plugin and want JOSM to > find it, it should be enough to add the plugin to the ​OpenStreetMap > Subversion Repository (SVN) and it will automatically appear on this > page. If you cannot put your plugin into SVN then edit this page and > insert a link to your plugin jar file into the page; after a few > minutes your plugin will be downloaded and the MANIFEST file will be > used to extract information for the table below. > > I don't know if that implies being listed at that page only or also in > the plugin manager. I don't use plugins, so I didn't notice, but > attempting to use one failed anyway: > > 2019-05-05 11:30:47.967 GRAVE: > org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.PluginException: Une erreur est > survenue dans le greffon buildings_tools. Cause : > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.buildings_tools.BuildingsToolsPlugin > org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.PluginException: Une erreur est > survenue dans le greffon buildings_tools > > I don't know how to load plugins outside of the plugin manager. Ideas? I could install the buildings plugin successfully. I have no idea on how to load plugins from outside the manager and haven't looked into the code. But the plugins could be of any license and/or could at least have unfree (or at least unbootstrappable) dependencies. Until we know how to deal correctly with plugins, we could disable the plugins-manager? Björn