Re: [Geoserver-devel] Dropping the oracle jdbc jar from the Oracle package

[Ben Caradoc-D. <be...@tr...>]

The Oracle license states that it is not permitted to redistribute the 
ojdbc jar by itself, but explicitly permitted to redistribute bundled 
with software that uses it (and the GeoServer oracle plugin would seem 
to meet this criterion).

However, we cannot comply with the export control provisions of the 
license (silly Oracle overreach as they are applying specific US rules 
on (e.g.) cryptography to *all* their software):
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/distribution-license-152002.html

Redistribution is fine, export controls are not, +1 to drop.

We should document which version we test against to guide users.

Kind regards,
Ben.

On 28/03/15 09:48, Andrea Aime wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm writing to suggest we drop the old jdbc jar we are shipping with the
> Oracle plugin.
>
> Theoretically, we should not do it anyways, it's just that back then we got
> a verbal confirmation
> from an Oracle employee that is was fine to add it in our plugin.
>
> But the driver is now very old, so unless we have fresh contacts with
> Oracle on the matter of
> redistribution, I'd say we should do just like with SqlServer and SDE, and
> tell people where
> to fetch the driver instead
>
> Opinions?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
>
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