Fix license requirement

qgis-app/plugins/forms.py

@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ def clean_package(self):
         """
         package = self.cleaned_data.get("package")
         try:
-            self.cleaned_data.update(validator(package))
+            self.cleaned_data.update(validator(package, plugin_is_new=True))
         except ValidationError as e:
             msg = _(
                 "There were errors reading plugin package (please check also your plugin's metadata)."

qgis-app/plugins/tests/test_validator.py

@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ def setUp(self) -> None:
     def tearDown(self):
         self.invalid_plugin.close()
 
-    def test_zipfile_without_license(self):
+    def test_new_plugin_without_license(self):
         self.assertRaises(
             ValidationError,
             validator,
@@ -217,4 +217,19 @@ def test_zipfile_without_license(self):
                 size=39889,
                 charset="utf8",
             ),
+            plugin_is_new=True
+        )
+
+    def test_update_plugin_without_license(self):
+        self.assertTrue(
+            validator(
+                InMemoryUploadedFile(
+                    self.invalid_plugin,
+                    field_name="tempfile",
+                    name="testfile.zip",
+                    content_type="application/zip",
+                    size=39889,
+                    charset="utf8",
+                )
+            )
         )

qgis-app/plugins/validator.py

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ def _check_url_link(url: str, forbidden_url: str, metadata_attr: str) -> None:
         raise error_check_if_exist
 
 
-def validator(package):
+def validator(package, plugin_is_new=False):
     """
     Analyzes a zipped file, returns metadata if success, False otherwise.
     If the new icon metadata is found, an inmemory file object is also returned
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ def validator(package):
 
         * size <= PLUGIN_MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE
         * zip contains __init__.py in first level dir
+        * Check for LICENCE file
         * mandatory metadata: ('name', 'description', 'version', 'qgisMinimumVersion', 'author', 'email')
         * package_name regexp: [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9-_]+
         * author regexp: [^/]+
@@ -237,11 +238,6 @@ def validator(package):
     if initname not in namelist:
         raise ValidationError(_("Cannot find __init__.py in plugin package."))
 
-    # Checks for LICENCE file precense
-    licensename = package_name + "/LICENSE"
-    if licensename not in namelist:
-        raise ValidationError(_("Cannot find LICENSE in plugin package."))
-
     # Checks metadata
     metadata = []
     # First parse metadata.txt
@@ -329,6 +325,17 @@ def validator(package):
     _check_url_link(dict(metadata).get("repository"), "http://repo", "Repository")
     _check_url_link(dict(metadata).get("homepage"), "http://homepage", "Home page")
 
+
+    # Checks for LICENCE file presence
+    # This should be just a warning for now (for new version upload) 
+    # according to https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/issues/38#issuecomment-1824010198
+    licensename = package_name + "/LICENSE"
+    if licensename not in namelist:
+        if plugin_is_new:
+            raise ValidationError(_("Cannot find LICENSE in the plugin package. This file is required for a new plugin, please consider adding it to the plugin package."))
+        else:
+            metadata.append(("license_recommended", "Yes"))
+
     zip.close()
     del zip
 

qgis-app/plugins/views.py

@@ -956,6 +956,17 @@ def version_create(request, package_name):
                     version_notify(new_object)
                 if form.cleaned_data.get("icon_file"):
                     form.cleaned_data["icon"] = form.cleaned_data.get("icon_file")
+
+                if form.cleaned_data.get("license_recommended"):
+                    messages.warning(
+                        request,
+                        _(
+                            "Cannot find LICENSE in the plugin package. This file is not required for updating the plugin but is recommended, please consider adding it to the plugin package."
+                        ),
+                        fail_silently=True,
+                    )
+                    del form.cleaned_data["license_recommended"]
+
                 _main_plugin_update(request, new_object.plugin, form)
                 _check_optional_metadata(form, request)
                 return HttpResponseRedirect(new_object.plugin.get_absolute_url())
@@ -1001,6 +1012,17 @@ def version_update(request, package_name, version):
                 _main_plugin_update(request, new_object.plugin, form)
                 msg = _("The Plugin Version has been successfully updated.")
                 messages.success(request, msg, fail_silently=True)
+
+                if form.cleaned_data.get("license_recommended"):
+                    messages.warning(
+                        request,
+                        _(
+                            "Cannot find LICENSE in the plugin package. This file is not required for updating the plugin but is recommended, please consider adding it to the plugin package."
+                        ),
+                        fail_silently=True,
+                    )
+                    del form.cleaned_data["license_recommended"]
+
             except (IntegrityError, ValidationError, DjangoUnicodeDecodeError) as e:
                 messages.error(request, e, fail_silently=True)
                 connection.close()