I'm not an official member/representative of Apache in any way so take this with a grain of salt... I think you'll need a Maven PMC member to look into things and potentially send this issue to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get their approval etc and then assuming it all works out, it can be posted into the Maven repo.
But even this seems like a lot of work -- why can't MSFT just release some things (like for example a SQL Server client connection library) under a license which freely permits redistribution rights, like so many other libraries/products already hosted by Maven? Even Sun has seen the "error" of their ways and is busy relicensing things under CDDL of late... Wayne On 9/30/06, Srepfler Srgjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wayne Fay wrote: > Feel free to look into it Srgjan and if it seems to allow > redistribution, open a JIRA ticket for it. > > Wayne I've asked on the MS msdn forums about it and a person answered that indeed the older driver had the restrictions on redistribution but the new one seems can be redistributed but it seems that the maven team should make a formal request. The guy also said he'd be glad to help clarify any licensing issues directly so I'm pointing you to the discussion: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/showpost.aspx?postid=777134&siteid=1 and here is the registration for the driver redistribution: http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/jdbc/redist/default.aspx I believe someone from representing maven team (or the apache foundation) should read the license and if it's ok then perhaps we can redistribute the lib through our repository. This is the EULA: http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/jdbc/redist/eula.aspx Perhaps there are some issues like: require distributors and external end users to agree to terms that protect it at least as much as this agreement; EXPORT RESTRICTIONS; others? Also, although we accept these terms, there is currently no way for the maven end users to accept the license as well. What's your thoughts? Srgjan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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