Those would be GPL with classpath exception, which is aligned with JDK itself.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM Jason Porter <jpor...@ibm.com.invalid> wrote: > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@kie.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@kie.apache.org
