pjfanning commented on issue #1685:
URL: 
https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-issues/issues/1685#issuecomment-2561044636

   > 2. Do as  @pjfanning (mainly because Hibernate License will be eventually 
updated and this will be a temporary fix) proposed. Do not distribute the 
binary (set the dependency as provided in the pom) and include instructions to 
add it.
   > 
   It's ok for a pom to link to an LGPL jar(not ideal, but ok). The issue is 
the zips and tar.gz files in https://downloads.apache.org/incubator/kie/10.0.0/ 
- these cannot include the LGPL jars. They can include scripts to download the 
LGPL jars if the jar is needed for the build, with instructions detailing the 
license issue.
   
   I would also like to highlight fat jars (often these are shaded jars) - 
these are jars that include many classes including 3rd party classes. If you 
include LGPL classes in these jars, then you have caused a copyleft issue with 
that fat jar.
   
   The licensing issue is that you can't ship classes or jars that are LGPL but 
you can link to jars (eg a pom dependency). 
   


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