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hallvard / plantuml

Embed UML diagrams in files and view them in Eclipse

http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/

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Missing license files #2

Closed davidjones7076 closed 6 years ago

davidjones7076 commented 9 years ago

Hi,

Like the look of the eclipse plugin.

Are you willing to add the Apache 2.0 or LGPL license files to:

The eclipse plugin repo
THe jexercise repo
The update sites linked at http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/eclipse.html

Thanks,

David

seiferma commented 8 years ago

I am also highly interested in a clear license statement. This is not only important to allow extensions but also clarifies if commercial users are allowed to use your plugin.

For me, it would be fine to just add a license to this repository for now.

arnaudroques commented 8 years ago

If we are talking about the library plantuml.jar, the license is explained in the faq ( http://plantuml.com/faq.html ). If it's not clear, please tell us.

About the PlantUML Eclipse plugin, ( http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/eclipse.html ) the situation may indeed sound confuse. So we will add a LGPL notice in content.xml for http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/updatesite/ and http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/updatesitejuno/ starting for next version 8037.

Note that the repository https://github.com/hallvard/plantuml adds Ecore/Xcore support to the original PlantUML Eclipse plugin, and is not developped by the PlantUML team. However, we are going to send a mail to Hallvard Trætteberg which manages this repository so that licensing could be clarify.

seiferma commented 8 years ago

Thanks for your fast response. Indeed, for PlantUML itself the license is clear. A clear license statement for the original Eclipse plugin would already help a lot.

Is the source code for this plugin available anywhere (except from the outdated version in this repository)?

arnaudroques commented 8 years ago

Would a EPL license for the Eclipse Plugin be ok for you ? (Instead of LGPL as we have suggested before)

seiferma commented 8 years ago

EPL license would be great, as we also use EPL and would not have to consider compatibility of different licenses.

arnaudroques commented 8 years ago

We've just release V8037 and the corresponding Eclipse Plugin ( http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/updatesite/ and http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/updatesitejuno/ ) are clearly mentionning EPL license when beeing installed

seiferma commented 8 years ago

Thanks for clarifying this. Now even companies can use this plugin without running into legal issues.

Could you also provide a link to the according source code?

arnaudroques commented 8 years ago

Technically, we don't recompile the Eclipse Plugin when there is a new version of plantuml.jar. We are just repackaging the 1.1.8 plugin with the new plantuml.jar and we published it on sourceforge.

So the according source code corresponds to this commit : https://github.com/hallvard/plantuml/commit/c76bfc85f82d74cc9ef5648f82deaa604fecfc46 (Except that version and plantuml.jar is changed). Further commits (that are adding ecore support) are not included in the published version.

Hope this helps!

seiferma commented 8 years ago

Thanks, but your link does not point to the most recent source code of the Eclipse plugin itself. This repository is not sufficient because it does not include several bug fixes that you included into the original plugin. I cannot find the source code of your original plugin.

Could you provide this link?