Github user zentol commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4367
I was wondering the same, but figured that it's okay since it is neither
required to build/run Flink nor included in the binary release and optional to
boot. FYI, the checkstyle plugin is also released under LGPL (not the maven
plugin, but the underlying checkstyle engine).
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