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. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> 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] >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> View this message in context: >> >> >> http://www.nabble.com/com-oracle-ojdbc14--where-are-Oracle-driver-jars--tf3848209s177.html#a10915079 >> >> Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> 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] >> > >> > >> > >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/com-oracle-ojdbc14--where-are-Oracle-driver-jars--tf3848209s177.html#a10916151 >> Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/com-oracle-ojdbc14--where-are-Oracle-driver-jars--tf3848209s177.html#a10917364 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]