Ross Gardler wrote: > 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.
I am not referring to finding a replacement. I mean that our "legal-discuss" list is not a boogey monster. They want to treat everything on a case-by-case basis. No-one has yet even approached them on this matter. See Henri's answer in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-8 -David
