Interesting option...thanks for the idea. A little bit more packaged than "download the artifact, manually move it there or run this script that copies it". Still doesn't avoid the manual download though.
-----Original Message----- From: Benson Margulies [mailto:bimargul...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 7:14 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: "disclaimer of warranty" license issue with artifact downloads? Provide an installer that drops into the local user's personal repo. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Wendy Smoak<wsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Jeff > Jensen<jeffjen...@upstairstechnology.com> wrote: >> For vendors that have software downloads (freely available to anyone) from >> their website with a click-through "disclaimer of warranty" that there is no >> intended warranty covering the use of the product, how do we provide similar >> "legal comfort" to them to enable hosting the artifacts in Maven Central? >> >> Obviously, the <licenses> POM element exists with a <url> element to point >> to the license. Has this sufficed in the past? What are the options? > > IIRC one of the reasons we can't distribute the older Sun jars is > because of their click-through license. So no, if that's a > requirement, just putting a url to the license in the pom isn't > sufficient. > > There was some talk of implementing a click-through for the Maven > repo, but I don't think it ever happened. In that particular case, > Sun changed the license on the newer binaries. > > -- > Wendy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
