The maven guys have been trying to negociate with Sun to be able to distribute these jars. See http://maven.apache.org/sun-licensing-journey.html
-Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Dain Sundstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 8 August 2003 1:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Geronimo standard Sun-API jars > > > Noel, > > I am willing to type everyone of these classes in by hand from the > public documentation. It bugs me a a personal level that I can not > download these jars in maven from ibiblio. For application developers, > the situation it terrible, they either need to get install a full > application server, an IDE with J2EE support, or download each one by > hand from the Sun website just to build there applications. > > -dain > > On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 10:11 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > Henri, > > > >> The first thing I'm looking for from Geronimo is not a working J2EE > >> server, but a redistributable version of [various Sun jar files]. > > > > Check to see if each one is covered by the Sun BCL, but at least the > > JavaMail and JAF JAR files are distributable under the Sun BCL. See > > the > > Licensing page on the Wiki for more information. > > > > The basic issue is that you can only distribute them as part of a > > package. > > That is why if you download a James package, you get some, but if you > > look > > in the CVS, they aren't there. Part of the packaging process adds the > > necessary JAR files. > > > > --- Noel > >
