I'll have a look at it, it's an optional dependency anyways. Sergio Fernández <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 20. Juli 2017, 10:46:
> FYI > I've created MARMOTTA-669 to handle this issue > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Chris Mattmann" <[email protected]> > Date: Jul 15, 2017 18:56 > Subject: Facebook BSD+patents license and Apache products > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: > > Hi, > > As some of you may know, recently the Facebook BSD+patents license has been > moved to Category X (https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved#category-x). > Please see LEGAL-303 [1] for a discussion of this. The license is also > referred > to as the ROCKSDB license, even though Facebook BSD+patents is its more > industry standard name. > > This has impacted some projects, to date based on LEGAL-303 > and the detective work of Todd Lipcon: > > Samza, Flink, Marmotta, Kafka and Bahir > > (perhaps more) > > Please take notice of the following policy: > > o No new project, sub-project or codebase, which has not > used Facebook BSD+patents licensed jars (or similar), are allowed to use > them. In other words, if you haven't been using them, you > aren't allowed to start. It is Cat-X. > > o If you have been using it, and have done so in a *release*, > you have a temporary exclusion from the Cat-X classification thru > August 31, 2017. At that point in time, ANY and ALL usage > of these Facebook BSD+patents licensed artifacts are DISALLOWED. You must > either find a suitably licensed replacement, or do without. > There will be NO exceptions. > > o Any situation not covered by the above is an implicit > DISALLOWAL of usage. > > Also please note that in the 2nd situation (where a temporary > exclusion has been granted), you MUST ensure that NOTICE explicitly > notifies the end-user that a Facebook BSD+patents licensed artifact exists. > They > may not be aware of it up to now, and that MUST be addressed. > > If there are any questions, please ask on the [email protected] > list. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, > Chris Mattmann > VP Legal Affairs > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-303 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
