Why was the Mojo project created?
Well, this allows a bunch of people, not necessarily involved with the Maven project, to come along and build some plugins. They are free to look after just that plugin, though I hope that they’ll get involved in the community of people here and work on other plugins as well as help maintain the common infrastructure like the site. Maven plugins may also be developed here because they are not compatible with the Apache license. Plugin authors may choose to use other licenses (BSD, GPL, MPL …) to license their work or may be forced to because of the nature of the plugin and its dependencies. These plugin authors are responsible for working with their plugins license but the mailing lists are a great place to get help if people get confused on what can or can not be done within the mojo project.
