On 02/28/2012 05:16 AM, Dan Tran wrote: > is it legal for me to check ditac source into github and convert its > build system to Maven as proof of concept? ( so that it can be easily > pushed into maven central )??
Sure. XMLmind DITA Converter (ditac for short) is free, open source, software licensed under the very liberal terms of the Mozilla Public License version 1.1. See http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/MPL-1.1.html > > -D > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Hussein Shafie<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 02/23/2012 04:18 PM, Dan Tran wrote: >>> >>> Agree. It is a hard to integrate with Maven but NOT that hard. I am >>> the author of dita-maven-plugin at codehaus, I am able to automate my >>> entire Dita build process if all artifact are at maven repository. >>> >>> dita-maven-plugin is a wrapper around ditaoi ant build so I need full >>> ANT packaging , ditaot minimal package, and jar dependencies like >>> saxon, xerces, fop, etc. dita-maven-plugin does not achieve complete >>> full automation if ANT full package and ditaot package at maven >>> central. >>> >>> However, with ditac, i dont need full ANT to build my dita. The >>> external scripts are also small ( compare to ditaot ) where they can >>> just be zipped together into one artifact. >>> >>> Also the ditac ant build is very small and simple >>> >>> So if ditac source tree can be available at GITHub or some public SCM >>> repository like codehaus/googlecode, I can help to push ditac to maven >>> central easily. >>> >>> Now ditac is the truely alternative to ditaot and in my opinion, it >>> has a big advantage over ditaot due to its simplicity >>> >> >> Thanks for this information and also thanks for the compliments! >> -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
