"Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/02/2003 03:42:36 PM: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > James currently includes JavaMail, Activation, dns-java and Junit > > non-Apache-jars without licenses in CVS. > > > > JavaMail, JAF, and other similar JAR files downloaded from the > java.sun.com web site have license agreements associated with them. In > the case of these JARs, the license agreement allowes you to include them > in a product, but not make them available separately. Thus, it's fine for > James to include these two JARs, just as it is fine for Tomcat to do so. > > The problem comes when you put a JAR file, on its own, into your own CVS > repository (because it's then available separately to anywone with CVS > access), or in a repository for automatic download such as that enabled > by Maven. The *latter* scenario is the issue, not the former.
Yep, so James including these jars in CVS *is* the latter scenario, right? Or am I misreading your last paragraph. Note that the jars are available via 'cvs checkout' of James. It's not a distribution we're talking about. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog Work: http://www.multitask.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
