Ross Gardler wrote: > Brian M Dube wrote: > >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. > > If there is no way of getting into Forrest ...
We don't know that yet. Brian is not the only person in this community. It is a pity that no-one can make the effort to follow up on such legal aspects. -David > ... I'll give you commit rights > to the SF plugins project. Just let me have your SF username (when I set > this up we said any Forrest committer could have committ access over > their simply by asking). > > However, be aware that it is not an active community in its own right. > It's merely a place to put stuff the ASF cannot distibute. We can (but > at present do not) include plugins from there in the Forrest > documentation (i.e. plugins.xml). Although to do this will require us to > include a big "this is not an approved ASF released plugin" or something > like that. > > Ross
