Also, note that all BSD is not created equal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses Protobuf itself is licensed under the "New" BSD license, so you might want to clarify which version he means.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Marco Tedone <[email protected]> wrote: > I have already talked to dtrott and he confirmed his plugin runs under the > BSD license. Time allowing I will attempt to contact him and suggest an > official release. In the meantime I'm releasing version 0.0.2.RELEASE of my > one. > > Regards, > > Marco > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Kick [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 21 June 2011 19:28 > To: Marco Tedone > Cc: Pherl Liu; Protocol Buffers > Subject: Re: [protobuf] Uploading the maven-protoc-plugin to Maven Central? > > I can't seem to find anything about licenses in that code and IANAL anyway. > That said, much of that code is derived from my original code, which was > under the same license as protobuf anyway. Might be worth emailing him to > make sure that the licensing is what you think it is. > > Anyway, I definitely support a community effort to build a better plugin. > I'd suggest reaching out to dtrott and discussing collaboration and if you > guys want to work on making some version of either plugin "official" then we > can get CLAs for you guys and do that. > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Marco Tedone <[email protected]> wrote: >> So, the google maven-protoc plugin has been retired in favour of dtrott one. >> I had a look at dtrott plugin and it seems to me unnecessary convoluted. >> Additionally it runs under the BSD license, which is not very Enterprise >> Friendly. >> >> I created my own, which is just a wrapper around protoc and runs under >> the MIT license *and* is on Maven central: >> http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/uk/co/jemos/maven/plugins/maven-jemosPro >> toc-plugin/ >> >> Regards, >> >> Marco >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gregory Kick [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 21 June 2011 18:26 >> To: Pherl Liu >> Cc: Marco Tedone; Protocol Buffers >> Subject: Re: [protobuf] Uploading the maven-protoc-plugin to Maven Central? >> >> See http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=81#c20 >> >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Pherl Liu <[email protected]> wrote: >>> +Gregory >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Marco Tedone >>> <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Is there a reason why the plugin hasn't been uploaded to Maven >>>> Central? If you want I could take ownership of that but then I'd >>>> have to be the owner of the com.google.protobuf Maven groupId, which >>>> I don't think is a good idea. >>>> >>>> There are already two other maven-protoc-plugin out there, both >>>> custom and this is causing confusion. I believe people would like to >>>> see the "Google" maven-protoc-plugin and use that, but in a way is >>>> easy to use (e.g. available in Maven Central). >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Greg Kick >> Data Liberation >> >> > > > > -- > Greg Kick > Data Liberation > > -- Greg Kick Data Liberation -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
