Provided you can display a yes/no choice to the user so they have to manually accept each library; possibly needing to show the licence also; I don't see any problem, unless we hit a point where LGPL/BCL licenses are not allowed as dependencies.
Bear in mind, we need to do this for both LGPL and BCL dependencies. Will hassle Cliff for his latest thoughts. He spent a lot of time talking with ASF/Legal people at ApacheCon on these kinds of issues. Hen On 12/22/05, Sean Gilligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no experience with Maven 2 or its Ant Tasks but am quite > experienced with Maven 1. I'm interested in using the Maven 2 Ant Tasks > to build and deploy a Roller war to an internal Maven repository. > > Is there a consensus that the Maven 2 Ant Tasks are the "right" way to > download the LGPL dependencies? If so, I may be able to find the time > to work on this next week, if that would help with the 2.1 release. > > > Regards, > > Sean > > Matt Raible wrote: > > I have a pretty good amount of experience with Maven 2's Ant Tasks > > (which I've heard are going to be a part of Ant 1.7). However, my > > vacation just started today and I won't have time to work on this for > > a week or two. I'm more than willing to tackle it at the end of the > > first week in January. > > > > Matt > > > > On 12/21/05, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We're wrapping up Roller 2.1 and Allen and I are starting to work on > >> our next set of features (due at end of January). > >> > >> There's one 2.1 "feature" that remains to be done and that's "Download > >> LGPL dependencies" -- but since we've started to look at alternatives > >> to our biggest LGPL dependency (i.e. Hibernate), I'm not sure we need > >> to do this work right now. > >> > >> Does anybody have the time to do the "Download LGPL dependencies" work > >> now, or shall we punt it and make preparations for the Roller > >> 2.1-incubating release? > >> > >> - Dave > >> > >> > >> PS. here's the release proposal: > >> http://www.rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp? > >> page=Proposal_Roller_2.1_Release > >> > >> > > > > > >
