On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:03:27PM +1000, David Crossley wrote: > The dependencies on the main facilities (e.g. WordPress and MySql) > seem okay to me. I expect that they would be treated as > system requirements, i.e. there is no use for the plugin if > there is no server available to connect to and extract content from.
(Snip) > > Some of them (e.g. ehcache) are already in forrest core lib > but need to to updated. > > If Forrest followed our usual technique of re-distributing > the supporting jars as a convenience, then definitely there > are some in that list that cannot be re-distributed: > > e.g. hibernate - See 150 hits for that word on legal-discuss@ > especially LEGAL-7 (and its linked issues) and the responses > to that and to LEGAL-9. > > e.g. mysql-connector-java - I expect that there would be > similar issues. Is there no suitably licensed alternative? I haven't found one. I don't have the energy to make the plugin work without Hibernate and the MySQL driver. I'm happy to make the code available elsewhere, but this is a blocker to host it here. Note I have not contacted legal-discuss. The time and energy for that is lacking, too. Brian
