Yes, I was also thinking of the Sun jar issue - part of it being the click through license, and part being the license stated that no one else could redistribute the artifacts.
A click through option on the repo would be "perfect" for the vendor I'm talking to. Their issue is the need for the legal disclaimer to be seen. Of course, a click-through feature would really interrupt the auto-download feature, requiring an interactive one the first time, but would satisfy this type of need. -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 7:05 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: "disclaimer of warranty" license issue with artifact downloads? On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Jeff Jensen<[email protected]> wrote: > For vendors that have software downloads (freely available to anyone) from > their website with a click-through "disclaimer of warranty" that there is no > intended warranty covering the use of the product, how do we provide similar > "legal comfort" to them to enable hosting the artifacts in Maven Central? > > Obviously, the <licenses> POM element exists with a <url> element to point > to the license. Has this sufficed in the past? What are the options? IIRC one of the reasons we can't distribute the older Sun jars is because of their click-through license. So no, if that's a requirement, just putting a url to the license in the pom isn't sufficient. There was some talk of implementing a click-through for the Maven repo, but I don't think it ever happened. In that particular case, Sun changed the license on the newer binaries. -- Wendy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
