Github user miguelaferreira commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/950#issuecomment-153289366 I've searched the legal section of Apache's JIRA and found several posts about including GPL licensed products in builds and test runs. One in particular (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-19) mentions "runtime dependency". My commit "ccb2cd9568fd7d2febfe6de08e43c43e460c0bee" makes the mysql connector an explicit runtime dependency, by requiring that the class is loaded. I would argue that mysql connector is already a runtime dependency because without it the application won't run. My commit makes that explicit. Which could be a problem in legal-land. I've tried an failed miserably to understand how is the mysql connector loaded in tomcat when installing from RPM. Does anyone know how this is done?
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