Where to post plug-ins? Distribution guide lines? License rules?

Miwarre · Oct 19th 2016

1) Is there an 'official' (or suggested) place in these fora where to put user-contributed plug-ins for the other to download?

Should they be posted in the "Example plug-ins" sub-forum? User-contributed plug-ins are not necessarily "examples", not even "exemplar".

2) Are there guide lines for suggested / preferred / requested physical details of distribution? Like: one single archive, please OR multiple files are also ok; for archives, please stick to .zip (or whatever) OR .tar.gz is fine too. And so on.

3) Is a specific form of licensing (or a range of roughly similar equivalent licences) suggested / required? Is the publication of sources a requirement or the simple .jar is already enough (as long as it works, of course)?

Comments from everybody is welcome, but some sort of 'official' statement about these points from JIW would be greatly appreciated.

red51 · Oct 20th 2016

Quote from Miwarre

1) Is there an 'official' (or suggested) place in these fora where to put user-contributed plug-ins for the other to download?

We set up a new section for that Didn't even expect a plugin so quickly

Quote from Miwarre

2) Are there guide lines for suggested / preferred / requested physical details of distribution? Like: one single archive, please OR multiple files are also ok; for archives, please stick to .zip (or whatever) OR .tar.gz is fine too. And so on.

Basically it's up to you, depending on your plugin. Only exception: No .exe file or something like that (so most preferably a zip), but we will set up some guidelines for that.

Quote from Miwarre

3) Is a specific form of licensing (or a range of roughly similar equivalent licences) suggested / required? Is the publication of sources a requirement or the simple .jar is already enough (as long as it works, of course)?

That's also up to you, it's your work. Only restriction: Users and servers should be allowed to use your plugin for free About the source files: You don't have to publish them necessarily, so the jar file is sufficient.

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