and going through legal at Oracle is trivial?  With lawyers I am surprised
anything at all this world is actually allowed to move.


Si'mon


Wayne Fay wrote:
> 
> Good luck with that. It may be easier to work on this from the Oracle
> front given that you know some people inside Oracle -- Maven is a
> project of Apache, and things like this must go through Apache Legal
> etc which is nontrivial.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 6/1/07, SiSi'mon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Yea, I thought of this but it seemed like more trouble than it is worth
>> and I
>> even worked at Oracle and know people there.  My first attempt will be to
>> get the Maven team to sign some paper allowing them to post the jars and
>> then work on Oracle.
>>
>> Who do I talk to at maven.org?
>>
>>
>> Si'mon
>>
>>
>> Wayne Fay wrote:
>> >
>> > Another reasonable question is why does Oracle not simply set up a
>> > Maven repo to host their files, like JBoss and Sun etc have already
>> > done? Or even better, why doesn't someone from Oracle contact the
>> > Maven dev team and ask them to pretty please, with sugar on top, host
>> > these files so our customers will receive this great benefit with very
>> > little effort on the part of Oracle?
>> >
>> > Wayne
>> >
>> > On 6/1/07, SiSi'mon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Oracle simply requires an agreement to distribute the jars (or put on
>> a
>> >> public repository).  I am wondering why Apache Maven VIP's could not
>> sign
>> >> the agreement and distribute them from the repo1 repository.
>> >>
>> >> Any idea who I could be put in touch with to do this?  I have copies
>> of
>> >> the
>> >> documents and contacts on the way to help get this in the queue. 
>> These
>> >> are
>> >> widely used jars and would save a lot of people a lot of time.
>> >>
>> >> thanks
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Si'mon
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Wayne Fay wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > If you plan to distribute Oracle's proprietary jars etc, make sure
>> you
>> >> > have the proper licensing etc necessary to do so.
>> >> >
>> >> > (These issues are exactly why these jars are not already available
>> in
>> >> > the Maven repo.)
>> >> >
>> >> > Wayne
>> >> >
>> >> > On 5/31/07, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >> On 5/31/07, SiSi'mon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Yes, we have already done this (downloaded an put in local
>> >> repository)
>> >> >> and
>> >> >> > internally we are doing this in development.  But we do not have
>> the
>> >> >> ability
>> >> >> > to serve as a Maven2 repository to customers we ship to so when
>> they
>> >> >> run the
>> >> >> > installer it will need to fetch the Oracle jars from somewhere.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > suggestions would be appreciated.  We may need to ship the actual
>> >> .jar
>> >> >> in
>> >> >> > the release and somehow tell maven to look at the lib/*.jars
>> instead
>> >> of
>> >> >> > trying to fetch it from a repository.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Maven can use filesystem based repositories (with file:// urls). 
>> You
>> >> >> could create the repository structure as part of your build, add a
>> >> >> <repository> element pointing to it to the pom, and then the build
>> >> >> should work.  I saw this done once... I think it was in the Celtix
>> >> >> project.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
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>> >> >>
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