Re: [Geoserver-devel] Dropping the oracle jdbc jar from the Oracle package

2015-05-18 Thread Rahkonen Jukka (MML)
+1 At least in our environment it is impossible to create new layers with GS 2.7.x with the included jdbc driver (ojdbc14.jar). However, creating new Oracle stores succeeds which makes an user to believe that the fault is somewhere else than in the driver. Better to drop the driver and advice

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Dropping the oracle jdbc jar from the Oracle package

2015-05-18 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi all, here is the pull request: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/1072 Since we are starting to receive bug reports caused by the old driver not being fully compatible with the Oracle store anymore, I'd be happy if we could merge this pull request before tomorrow's 2.7.1 release (no co

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Dropping the oracle jdbc jar from the Oracle package

2015-03-27 Thread Rahkonen Jukka (MML)
Hi, There should also be a Accept license box. BTW. what do you like about this part of the license: "You may not: - disclose results of any program benchmark tests without our prior consent." I have liked how easy it is to install the Oracle plugin simply by unzipping but still +1 to drop.

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Dropping the oracle jdbc jar from the Oracle package

2015-03-27 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
The Oracle license states that it is not permitted to redistribute the ojdbc jar by itself, but explicitly permitted to redistribute bundled with software that uses it (and the GeoServer oracle plugin would seem to meet this criterion). However, we cannot comply with the export control provisio

[Geoserver-devel] Dropping the oracle jdbc jar from the Oracle package

2015-03-27 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi, I'm writing to suggest we drop the old jdbc jar we are shipping with the Oracle plugin. Theoretically, we should not do it anyways, it's just that back then we got a verbal confirmation from an Oracle employee that is was fine to add it in our plugin. But the driver is now very old, so unless