Of course it is. Don't pay any attention to that drama queen over there.

You can either strip down his jar to just saxon proper with a POM with
dependencies for the other stuff or you can add the licenses to the jar.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Dan Tran <dant...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jason, so it is legal for us to inject all required license files into
> all jars under this bundle
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon/files/Saxon-B/9.1.0.7/saxonb9-1-0-7j.zip/download
>
> order to upload them into central?
>
> I am really interested on how to get those files for dita-ot's 1.5
> dependencies
>
> -D
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@sonatype.com> wrote:
> > On 2009-10-20, at 5:16 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am a Maven fan and stumbled over a this:
> >>
> >>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=B4EA6C26949B4127960EE2A00780F643%40Sealion&forum_name=saxon-help
> >>
> >> Is this true? In any case, thought you might want to know...
> >>
> >
> > That post is FUD as far as I'm concerned. The problem is easily solved by
> > including any necessary license files or notices by including them in the
> > JAR. Then amazingly when the user gets the JAR they get the required
> > additions. There is inventional called a JAR file. It's pretty useful for
> > packaging things up and delivering them.
> >
> > The guy who posted this also appears to be from the company responsible
> for
> > producing Saxon, so unless they plan on suing people who use JARs coming
> > from Maven then there is no legal problem. They have to enforce it. Would
> be
> > easy enough to take the JARs they produce and put the notice files in the
> > JARs if their build is deficient in doing this.
> >
> > Maven is completely able to deliver copyright notices. You package them
> up
> > in the releases you create which is what we do at Apache.
> >
> >> Keep up the good work!
> >> Svante
> >>
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> >
> > Jason
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