Hi Jenkins-sci,

I have been interested in using the Travis plugin at work.

https://github.com/jenkinsci/travis-yml-plugin

However, the project seems to have been abandoned. It doesn't work at all 
without the PR here, which has not been merged:

https://github.com/jenkinsci/travis-yml-plugin/pull/1

Travis is also quite complex and there are many features and improvements 
that could be added. I have started making a few small (unreleased) changes 
myself. 

I have tried to email the maintainer masakinakagawa a few months back and 
he has not responded to me.

Now, I would be happy to adopt the plugin, but there is one big problem. My 
employer (Google) is happy to contribute to OSS but seeing as the company 
is a huge legal target, our legal counsel is quite strict about complying 
to various licenses. The issue with the current Travis plugin is that there 
is no license anywhere on the repo. I know the Jenkins doc say it's 
"assumed' to be MIT, but we all know what happens with assumptions. So, if 
I did take ownership of it, I'd want to re-write it, probably in Java. It's 
currently only a few hundred lines of Ruby so this isn't a big effort. It 
would be under the Apache 2.0 license, so still an extremely permissive 
license. 

Alternatively, maybe someone else could take over the plugin, and I could 
just submit PRs to them. That would be simpler since it's easier to give 
code away with a correct license then take ownership of code without one at 
all.

I know Travis is pretty popular so it'd be nice to see this plugin get 
going again. Let me know what you think!

Bill

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