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. > > >