Create a plugin and tell people that they must configure it as an 'extension', and make it do the click-through thing.
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Jeff Jensen<[email protected]> wrote: > 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:[email protected]] > 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<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Jeff >> Jensen<[email protected]> 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: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
