Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/11/2003 10:00:07 PM:
> > Tim Anderson wrote: > ... > > Virtual hosting > > --------------- > > > > With this approach, none of the artifacts are hosted within the > > public repository. > > http redirection is used to direct 'virtual' artifact accesses to > > the real artifact. > > > > The limitation of this approach is that automatic artifact resolution > > can only work if the redirect is to the real artifact. > > This rules out all of the Sun jars which require acceptance > > of Sun's license first. > > > > A tool can 'screen scrape' the redirected page, prompt the user > > to accept the license and only download if the license is accepted, > > If the tool is made to work like a web browser, ie show the pages and > then download when the user clicks on the button, IMHO it would be > perfectly acceptable. But still illegal. We've been down this road and are working with Sun on a solution. We have (had?) a tool that would do the above in Maven ages ago. See http://maven.apache.org/sun-licensing-journey.html -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/
