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Isaac Kamga commented on FINCN-26:
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[~vorburger] [~jamespdailey] Is this still a pain point for the project ? I
would say no to that given that we've migrated our RDBMS to PostgreSQL and
users aren't compelled to use MariaDB anymore. What do you think ?
> Replace MariaDB driver with drizzle as JDBC driver
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>
> 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
> Assignee: Isaac Kamga
> Priority: Blocker
>
> 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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