Hello again I finally have time to investigate this issue.
I dug through MySQL source code, licenses and READMEs and found: - https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-j/blob/release/5.1/README - https://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception/ - https://oss.oracle.com/licenses/universal-foss-exception/ (starting from version 8.x of the driver) Of course IANAL, but I think this allows us to "use" (in general meaning - and <bundle dependency="true">mvn:mysql/mysql-connector-java/${mysql.version}</bundle> is very very gentle kind of usage) the driver. Here's the important part of FAQ answer: Open source software projects and other developers can also use and > distribute open source applications with the GPL-licensed MySQL Client > Libraries under the terms of the FOSS License Exception without causing the > entire derivative work to be subject to the GPL. > FOSS License List include different kinds of ASL, so I really think we're safe here. Michael - wdyt? regards Grzegorz Grzybek W dniu środa, 28 lutego 2018 14:02:31 UTC+1 użytkownik Michael Vorburger napisał: > > Hello, > > would anyone have any objection to a breaking change in PAX-JDBC which > would remove the pax-jdbc-mysql bundle from the org.ops4j.pax.jdbc Karaf > feature? The pax-jdbc-mariadb can typically be used instead of > pax-jdbc-mysql. > > The reason is that at least in our use, as part of a custom Karaf distro > at https://www.opendaylight.org, we are having to manually excluding the > mysql-connector-java JDBC driver JAR which the pax-jdbc-mysql bundle drags > along, because it is GPL licensed. > > Full background in https://ops4j1.jira.com/browse/PAXJDBC-128 ... > > Thanks, > M. > -- > Michael Vorburger, Red Hat | IRC: vorburger @freenode | ~ = > http://vorburger.ch > -- -- ------------------ OPS4J - http://www.ops4j.org - ops4j@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OPS4J" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ops4j+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
