Any chance of getting cassandra releases published to repo1.maven.org?

Hi, I was looking to see if I could find the cassandra jars on the maven central repository (repo1.maven.org) but I see that they are not there (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/cassandra - 404 not found) So I had a quick search of the mailing lists and this was what I found:

Re: Any chance of getting cassandra releases published to repo1.maven.org?

The binaries in the lib folder, is there any objection to piling them down from the maven central repository via ivy if they are available on the maven central repository? For those that are not on central, can I assume that legal has ok'ed they're redistribution if they are not originating at