I think to get this to work for us, we would need to update our dependencies reference in pom.xml to reference the correct artifact ID and version. Developers would be required to specify their oracle maven identity (from http://maven.oracle.com) in a local settings.xml file so that the user can authenticate to download official drivers.
Alternatively, if we could get some kind of permission to host it on our own nexus repository, then we would be able to host the libraries ourselves. I just don’t know how we could get the necessary permissions.