On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:10 PM George Dewar <gde...@linz.govt.nz> wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
>
>
>
> I am not sure we would have permission to *distribute* the JDBC driver
> with GeoTools or GeoServer due to its licence, but as Jody has said below,
> given it is marked as “provided” and would not be distributed with GeoTools
> (the user would have to provide it themselves) that would get around this
> issue. Less convenient for users, though…
>

>
> I could ask our legal team if the licence does permit us distributing it -
> from reading it, I find it hard to tell if it does or doesn’t!
>

If the jar is on a maven repository, it can be either redistributed, or
it's there illegally (if there is any option I'm missing, please let
me know).
That's important to find out, as we need the jar to run the tests, which
are in turn needed to keep the module in supported land.

Cheers
Andrea

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