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Isaac Kamga reassigned FINCN-27:
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Assignee: Isaac Kamga
> Remove dependency to embedded MariaDB from component-test modules of all
> services.
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>
> Key: FINCN-27
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINCN-27
> Project: Fineract Cloud Native
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: fineract-cn-template, fineract-cn-test
> Reporter: Myrle Krantz
> Assignee: Isaac Kamga
> Priority: Major
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> Fineract CN services currently depend on an embedded version of MariaDB for
> their component tests. This component is licensed as GPL, and therefore,
> needs to be replaced before we release. If we can't find a suitable
> replacement, an alternative would be to omit the component tests from our
> release.
> Why can't we have dependencies to GPL software? This sequence of events would
> be bad:
> 1.) We include GPL software in our release.
> 2.) Our code, including the GPL dependency is included in proprietary code of
> CompanyOmega
> 3.) Some judge somewhere decides that the "firewall" separating our code from
> the GPL isn't strong enough to call prevent the viral aspects of GPL 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 GPL (or any other Category X software) in our
> releases.
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