Yes GPL and Apache 2.0 are not bidirectional in their compatability. I believe that GPL can depend on Apache code without any issues but Apache definitely cannot ship or even depend on GPL code. We can point to it from the web page and let people know that it exists, but we cannot ship it with an apache storm release. - Bobby
On Sunday, March 20, 2016 9:39 PM, Jon Logan <jmlo...@buffalo.edu> wrote: Just a heads up but the MySQL connector is GPL. I would think this would make it prohibited to be part of the Storm repository? On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Harsha <st...@harsha.io> wrote: > Hi Sourav, > I just took a look. This looks great. It would be great if > you can contribute to this connector Apache Storm. If so > can you please open a JIRA and open a PR > https://github.com/apache/storm. > > Thanks, > Harsha > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016, at 08:09 AM, Sourav Mitra wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We have been developing a storm spout that reads off MySql Bin Logs > > directly and generates the events as a stream. > > > > Please have a look at the following project on github: > > > > https://github.com/flipkart-incubator/storm-mysql > > > > Its currently as a snapshot on Sonatype and will be released shortly. > > > > Please feel free to review, raise issues. > > > > PRs most welcome. > > > > Thanks > > > > Sourav Mitra >