Correct me if I’m wrong, but we’re not able to link to GPL libraries either. That was a sticking point with Hibernate.
-- Jason Porter Software Engineer He/Him/His IBM From: Toni Rikkola <rikk...@apache.org> Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 01:53 To: dev@kie.apache.org <dev@kie.apache.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [DISCUSSION][FYI] Use the external XML and JSON Mapper libraries instead our internal copies Hi, Currently we have XML and JSON Mapper libraries in KIE that are duplicates of identical libraries outside of our code base. The reason for forking them in was likely due to an old requirement that we need to control all the source at KIE, here at Apache or back at Red Hat. At this moment this is not true, if it ever was. Problem is these libraries are licensed under GPL and if GPL is used inside an ASL project it consumes everything and the project is then GPL. The plan is to remove our fork and use the originals with the GPL linking exception. Related ticket: https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-tools/issues/3196 Related dev list thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread/gsj0mxkzwpcgwztz231tr6tnnx9kxd0g Linking exception: https://openjdk.org/legal/gplv2+ce.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception Toni Rikkola --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@kie.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@kie.apache.org
