Hi! If this is the wrong forum for this message, I apologise. It was the best I could find.
I'm a software developer, and the company for which I work recently started using WiX for one of their products. As part of the team that implemented it, I was quite satisfied with the result. There are plans (or hopes among some of the developers) to use Maven[1] to build our products. (In short, Maven is a build tool. See the link for more information.) As one of the Maven fans, I started to implement a Maven plugin to build WiX projects. It quickly turned out to be quite successful, and I'm considering releasing it. I'm leaning towards a GNU GPL v3 license[2], but it's not written in stone. As most of the development has been done on company time (we get some "personal project time" now and then), it is not yet clear who would be the copyright holder; I or the company. As for the more technical details of the plugin, it is simply some Java code that executes the WiX binaries (it won't work without the WiX Toolset installed). No part of the WiX code is thus included in my plugin. At present, project properties, such as version number and copyright information, are passed along, so that a minimum of manual changes will have to be made in the WiX code as a product evolves. On the To Do-list are things like multi-language compilation and embedding of language transforms. Now for my questions: 1. The project is currently called "WiX Maven Plugin" (as per the de-facto standard naming scheme). Is there a trademark on the name "WiX"? Would it be better if it had some other name? I would still like to mention the name in the plugin's documentation, along with other names like "light" and "candle". 2. Would a GNU GPL v3 license in any way conflict with the WiX licensing (remember: I would not be distributing any part of the WiX Toolset itself)? I'm not a lawyer, but perhaps a bit paranoid. :) 3. And finally: Has this been done already? Is there an existing WiX plugin for Maven that I have failed to find? [1] http://maven.apache.org/ [2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html Best regards *Theo Willows* Stockholm - Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
