Hi,

I just want to inform you about the release status. Maybe you have
seen the ongoing discussion on the general mailing list about the
inclusion of binary dependencies within source release packages. Sine
we include the OWLAPI JAR in binary form, this is relevant for our
release.

As far as I did understand the arguments it is not possible to include
binaries like this. The reason is that we ship open source software
and binaries are not source. The used Maven dependencies are not part
of the release itself and are only downloaded during the build. The
difference is that the user is responsible for these downloads. Once
we include a binary in a source release, we are responsible.

I have asked on the general list what we should do now in our
situation to find out how to handle dependencies that are not
available at Maven central. Maybe we have to add a note and require
the users to download the OWLAPI JAR themselves prior being able to
compile Stanbol.

Best,
 - Fabian

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