But it feels like there's a desperate need for
good ideas how to improve things.
Perhaps it would help to find
ways how we can better leverage and pull 3rd party
libraries out of their native
homes at runtime rather than investing so much time
into finding out whether we can
redistribute them ourselves? - Anybody with
good ideas please speak up!
The problem isn't where the libraries come from but rather whether they
are IP clean. You can probably figure out some work around the rules
where you download the libraries from another place but (a) many of
them are explicitly not allowed by the IP Policy (i.e., you're not the
first to think of this idea) and (b) no matter where the libraries come
from (eclipse.org distros or other places), the Members still want the
libraries to be vetted. And it turns out that vetting third-party code
is a very painfully slow process.