LevelDB is New BSD (and the license in the first commit you linked to is
definitely not GPL2):

https://github.com/google/leveldb/blob/master/LICENSE

The second commit you referenced, adds GPL2 to the list of licenses in the
pom, but it's not clear why.

Ismael

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com> wrote:

> LevelDB GPL2 notice seems to have been added to rocksdb 5.7.1, but likely
> this applies to old versions too.
>
> https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/commit/4a2e4891fe4c6f66f
> b9e8e2d29b04f46ee702b52#diff-7e1d2c46cd6eacd9a8d864450a128218
> https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/commit/6e3ee015fb1ce03e4
> 7838e9a3995410ce884c212#diff-1d5a1a614aa158e14292a60d9891f1df
>
> Shouldn't similar notice be added to Apache Kafka too?
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Apache Kafka community,
> >
> > Is it on purpose that kafka-streams 0.11.0.1 depends on
> > org.rocksdb:rocksdbjni:5.0.1, and not on newer 5.7.3, because 5.0.1 has
> > Apache 2 license while 5.7.3 has also GPL 2.0 parts?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Stevo Slavic.
> >
>

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