Hello Everyone, I am hoping we could take some time to discuss and come up with approaches for achieving full Apache compliance on the Fineract CN project. I think there are still dependencies on Fineract CN which need some attention in terms of checking the licenses and making sure they are compliant with the Apache license.
To that end, I began looking at the Microservices and checking the license of each dependency in accordance with this list: https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html Within the mariadb component, i realized that the *mariadb-java-client* uses LGPL 2.1 (Is this compliant with the Apache license? ). I don't know if there are other dependencies which are not Apache compliant like the known case: Hibernate. To migrate Fineract CN from using Hibernate to using OpenJPA, we might do the following: * Replace the Hibernate Validator with something more Apache compliant like javax.validation.* or a corresponding OpenJPA library if such exists. * Configure and set the LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean ( within MariaDBJavaConfiguratio n ) to use the right JpaVendorAdapter ( OpenJPAs own equivalent of HibernateJpaVendorAdapter ) within mariadb component. And also the set the right properties for OpenJPA ( peristence unit etc ). I will like more experienced developers/architects in the community weigh in and provide additional details which will enable the gradual migration from Hibernate to OpenJPA and to get other non-compliant dependencies migrated too. From this point, volunteers can pick this up and make progress. Thanks. Awasum Yannick.
