The relevant url is https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional
On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 6:54 AM Owen O'Malley <owen.omal...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are allowed to use category X software in optional components. > Furthermore, the dependency is marked as provided, so it won't be pulled > into a transitive closure. > > You are right that I should have included a comment about that on the > original jira. > > .. Owen > > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 1:58 AM Wei-Chiu Chuang > <weic...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: > >> Hi community, >> >> While preparing for 3.3.6 RC, I realized the mysql-connector-java >> dependency added by HADOOP-18535 >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-18535> is GPL licensed. >> >> >> Source: >> https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-j/blob/release/8.0/LICENSE >> See legal discussion at Apache LEGAL-423 >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-423>. >> >> I looked at the original jira and github PR and I don't think the license >> issue was noticed. >> >> Is it possible to get rid of the mysql connector dependency? As far as I >> can tell the dependency is very limited. >> >> If not, I guess I'll have to revert the commits for now. >> >
