Hi Stevo,

We are aware. There have been regressions in recent versions which have
prevented us from upgrading. See:

https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3519#issuecomment-327992362
https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3819

Ismael

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There is legal problem for older rocksdb versions, see
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-303?focusedCommentId=16109870&;
> page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:
> comment-tabpanel#comment-16109870
>
> Dependencies with Facebook BSD+Patents license are not allowed to be
> included in Apache products
> https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x
>
> I see even latest trunk depends on older rocksdb 5.3.6
> https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/gradle/dependencies.gradle#L67
>
> Please consider upgrading, maybe as critical for 1.0.0 release if possible.
> Should I create the ticket?
>
> Kind regards,
> Stevo Slavic.
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > This commit says that GPLv2 is an alternative license, so it's all good,
> I
> > believe:
> >
> > https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/commit/
> d616ebea23fa88cb9c2c8588533526
> > a566d9cfab
> >
> > Ismael
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > 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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