Hi, Am Freitag, den 10.07.2020, 16:40 +0200 schrieb Karl Tauber: > On 08.07.2020 22:21, Ernie Rael wrote: > > On 7/8/2020 8:07 AM, Karl Tauber wrote: > > > My company offers a commercial plugin (JFormDesigner) for NetBeans and > > > for us it is no option to upload our commercial plugin to Maven Central. > > > Not sure whether this would be even legal. Isn't Maven Central for > > > open source only? > > > > I'd like to hear some clarification on this point if anyone has an > > answer, definitive or otherwise. I've seen some articles that say yes > > and some that say no. > > On Sonatype's central home page https://central.sonatype.org/: > > The Central Repository - Serving Open Source Components Since 2002 > > Or on https://central.sonatype.org/pages/about.html: > > The Central Repository is the largest collection of Java and other > open source components. > > Or on https://central.sonatype.org/pages/producers.html: > > Whether you are an individual running a small open source project, > a group of developers with a few projects or a large organization > running your own repository manager publishing open source components > ... >
the answer is wrong. Open Source is not a requirement: https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MVNCENTRAL-692 links to: https://central.sonatype.org/pages/central-repository-producer-terms.html links to: https://central.sonatype.org/pages/requirements.html And the core part: If, for some reason (for example, license issue or it's a Scala project), you can not provide -sources.jar or -javadoc.jar , please make fake -sources.jar or -javadoc.jar with simple README inside to pass the checking. We do not want to disable the rules because some people tend to skip it if they have an option and we want to keep the quality of the user experience as high as possible. TL;DR: Source and Javadoc are strong encouraged, but if you fail to provide them, it is ok. Greetings Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
