Re: ATTN: Maven developers [was: primary distribution location]

[Sam Ruby]

Jason van Zyl wrote:

The Sun Binary Code License issue I am looking into personally and will
either 1) add a click through license handler 2) Add the
non-distributable JARs feature back in or 3) remove them. These are a
problem.

I don't see anything in the license that permits others to redistribute this with a click through license.

As for the LGPL and GPL jars what is the problem exactly. Ibiblio is not
ASF hardware what jurisdiction does the ASF have?. What juridiction do
you have at all? I put the repository there to avoid these problems. Why
are you trying to make it so difficult for people to build projects?
What are users supposed to do who need GPL and LGPL JARs. The Maven
repository is not for ASF code only, it's for all Java projects.

Ibiblio can do whatever it wants. I don't want the ASF to be complicit with license violations. Sever the connection to ibiblio or correct the problem.

I've removed the JAF, JavaMail and EJB jars from the repository.

Sam, just let know if there are others JARs I can remove to make it more
difficult for people to build their projects.

I realize that you are not happy with the terms of the Sun license. Please do not direct that at me.

I am requesting that the people contributing to Maven perform an audit. I would like to see that audit complete within two weeks.

It is not difficult to find more license violations. Quite a number of the packages starting with the letter 'J' alone look suspicious.

- Sam Ruby


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