Myrle Krantz created FINCN-26:
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Summary: Replace MariaDB driver with drizzle as JDBC driver
Key: FINCN-26
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINCN-26
Project: Fineract Cloud Native
Issue Type: Task
Components: fineract-cn-mariadb
Reporter: Myrle Krantz
Fineract CN currently depends on 'org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client:1.4.3'
as our JDBC driver. It's for our connection to an SQL database, and can be
used for MySQL as well as MariaDB. This component is licensed as LGPL, and
therefore, needs to be replaced before we release. The current suggestion is
to replace it with drizzle. Other suggestions are also welcome.
Why can't we have dependencies to LGPL software? This sequence of events would
be bad:
1.) We include LGPL software in our release.
2.) Our code, including the LGPL dependency is included in proprietary code of
CompanyOmega
3.) Some judge somewhere decides that the "firewall" separating our code from
the LGPL isn't strong enough to call prevent the viral aspects of LGPL from
taking effect.
4.) CompanyOmega's proprietary code is now all open source and they go out of
business.
It's not a likely sequence, but because of the size of the negative outcome, we
avoid it by not including LGPL (or any other Category X software) in our
releases.
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