David Crossley wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
Brian M Dube wrote:
David Crossley wrote:
The dependencies on the main facilities (e.g. WordPress and MySql)
seem okay to me. I expect that they would be treated as
system requirements, i.e. there is no use for the plugin if
there is no server available to connect to and extract content from.
(Snip)
Some of them (e.g. ehcache) are already in forrest core lib
but need to to updated.
If Forrest followed our usual technique of re-distributing
the supporting jars as a convenience, then definitely there
are some in that list that cannot be re-distributed:
e.g. hibernate - See 150 hits for that word on legal-discuss@
especially LEGAL-7 (and its linked issues) and the responses
to that and to LEGAL-9.
e.g. mysql-connector-java - I expect that there would be
similar issues. Is there no suitably licensed alternative?
I haven't found one. I don't have the energy to make the plugin work
without Hibernate and the MySQL driver. I'm happy to make the code
available elsewhere, but this is a blocker to host it here. Note I
have not contacted legal-discuss. The time and energy for that is
lacking, too.
If there is no way of getting into Forrest ...
We don't know that yet. Brian is not the only person
in this community. It is a pity that no-one can make
the effort to follow up on such legal aspects.
Peronslly I don't need to follow up. There is GPL code - that's the end
of the story for the ASF. I too have looked for alternatives in the past
- they don't (to my knowedge exist) and I've wasted much time on this in
the past.
I'm offering a solution. If others want to follow up on the legal front
fine - for me it is a dead end so lets get the code where it can be used.
Ross
