Developer

2008 Eclipse Community Award

XMind 2008 was named "Best Commercial Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) Application" as part of the prestigious Eclipse Community Awards at EclipseCon 2008.

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Why Open Source

We want other Eclipse-based projects and Eclipse plugin contributors use XMind's code in their applications for brainstorming and mind mapping capabilities, or just for exporting their data to an XMind mind map file.

We also welcome plugins for XMind itself. So we provide lots of extension points. The documents are coming soon.

License

XMind is dual licensed under 2 open source licenses:

the Eclipse Public License v1.0 (EPL), which is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html , and the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPL), which is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html.

For licensees that wish to distribute XMind 3, modify the source code, and/or build extensions, the EPL can be used to maintain copyleft of the original code base while encouraging innovation with commercial and other open source offerings incorporating XMind.

At the same time, for licensees that are concerned with incompatibility between the EPL and GPL, we are providing the LGPL as an option to license XMind.

Please note that we are not providing legal advice here and you should not rely on the above statements as such.

For a full understanding of your rights and obligations under these licenses, please consult the full text of the EPL and/or LGPL, and your legal counsel as appropriate.

Parse XMind file

XMind files are generated in XMind Workbook (.xmind) format, an open format that is based on the principles of OpenDocument. It consists of a ZIP compressed archive containing separate XML documents for content and styles, a .jpg image file for thumbnails, and directories for related attachments.

XMind/XMind Pro 3 and later should support the order version ".xmap" file format (XMind 2007/2008), but limited to reading it.

The full specification is coming soon.

Contributing to XMind

We are actively seeking source code contributions into XMind.

Report Bugs: Post in our developer site.
Fix Problems: Post your code in our developer forum. Please add our license notice at the head of all source files.
Write an extension: See Eclipse Help. The documents of XMind's extension points are coming soon.