>However we're not allowed to put it in CVS, and in fact thats pretty much the case for all 3rd party jars, because it is difficult (read impossible) to ensure that people can't download them without first agreeing to their licence conditions. I understand that this is because "viewcvs" provides access to the jar without compelling people to also download any other files, never mind actually read the licence.
Someone, who deserves more credit than my forgetting who it was, produced ant tasks for james which allow james' build to include a step which automatically retrieves JavaMail, Activation and JUnit jars from their respective homes, and compels the user to agree to accept the licence.
This is AFAIK allowable (or acceptable to Sun) under the licence.
Right, you can bundle javamail.jar (and other BCL libraries) as part of a complete distribution (like the James server), but you couldn't have it in CVS for exactly that reason.
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