Some more thoughts... The same problem with Sun licenses was recently addressed also by Eclipse. They implemented a click-through mechanism where the user must accept the sun license everytime a file is requested from a sun server (an eclipse window containing a page from the sun website and an eccept button is displayed). The same could be done for maven.
You will not believe it, but this is also required for standard dtds and xsds (like the web.xml schema)... according to Sun any xml editor which reads the xsd declaration in an xml file and tries to download it for validation without prompting for the license could be considered illegal?!? In the other direction, non restributable jars are often included in other distributions. For example Spring includes in his distribution all the javax.* files he uses. So it should be illegal if you consider Spring as a framework you can use to build your own application, while probably it could be legally done if you consider Spring a final product which needs these jars to work. Following the same consideration, maven could be considered as a build tool and in order to work ( = to be able to compile artifacts) it needs the sun jars. I think Sun never complaint about projects redistributing their jars till now. Maybe somebody would came up with an unofficial repository outside apache containing the sun jars and the above notice, of course explaining he will immediately remove them if Sun will complain about such use not contemplated in their not-so-clear license (emh, not a suggestion, but maybe...) fabrizio --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
