Om, Have you actually found the jars on Maven Central? I can't find them with the search facility. Can you post the URLs?
Thanks, -Alex On 9/19/14 11:33 AM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 9/19/14 11:06 AM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >Before this discussion veers further into weirder territory, what is >>the >> >best way to move forward? >> > >> >If Velo had an official permit from Adobe, is that not good enough for >>us, >> >regardless of what happened internally at Adobe? >> When we first started talking about Maven and Apache Flex, I asked Adobe >> Legal and they insisted on having folks explicitly accept the Adobe EULA >> (via some UI gesture) before downloading Adobe dependencies. The sense >>I >> got from poking around Maven Central is that the jars out there are >>under >> open licenses. Chris Dutz offered to create a Maven extension to do >>that. >> If someone can point me to the jars in Maven Central, I'll ask Adobe >> Legal whether it is ok for them to be there and downloaded without >> explicit acceptance, but they could come back and ask me to remove all >>of >> them. Or maybe this time they'll cave and say it is ok. >> >> >I say we ask permission first to let things continue the way they are >today. If they say no, we look at adding an explicit license agreement UI >action. > >Chris, is this acceptable for you? Others? > > >> > >> >I see that there are some PDF, Acrobat and Day jars already on Maven, >>so >> >this must not be a new concept for their legal team, I am guessing. >> It might be. Not everyone asks legal before doing things at Adobe. If >>I >> had, I probably wouldn't have a blog. >> >> >> >Fair enough :-) > >Thanks, >Om > > >> -Alex >> >>
