The main advantage is not having to change the group ID. I don't think you'd be able to publish to o.c.mojo via ossrh.
I think there has been some miscommunication. Combining the plugin under it's license and Cobertura under GPL certainly creates a work that is more restrictive - but it's still open source and Codehaus have said that from a policy PoV they are ok with that. What should change is the license headers, which use the ASF ones instead. It might be better to use a BSD license for better compatibility with the GPL. For my contributions, I'm fine with that. I'm fine with Benson having commit rights if he is keen to maintain it. - Brett On 01/04/2011, at 6:53 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Hello Mojo Developers, > > We're using cobertura at my job, and we'd really like aggregation to > work. So, I picked up MCOBERTURA-65 and added some testing to it in > the hopes of a commit. > > I just got bad news from Robert Scholte. There is a longstanding > problem of license friction with this plugin where the cobertura > license and the codehaus license don't play well together. The > original MCOBERTURA-65 patch already trangressed a 'what can you call' > boundary here. > > Hypothetically, the patch could be reworked to stay in bounds. > > However, it seems to me to be wasteful to build and maintain a maven > plugin for a fundamentally GPL component (cobertura) in an environment > that puts barriers on writing code that makes subroutine calls to GPL > code. To me, this is what github was invented for. > > It's hard for my to justify the effort of reworking this patch to get > what I want rather than making a fork. My question is this. How many > other people are reading this email who might, in any circumstance, > contribute to the ongoing maintenance of a cobertura maven plugin? How > many of you would cheerfully join me in maintaining a copy on github > published via ossrh? In other words, what's the advantage, to anyone, > of keeping this code at codehaus? > > --benson margulies > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > -- Brett Porter [email protected] http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
