Hi,
Currently we have XML and JSON Mapper libraries in KIE that are
duplicates of identical libraries outside of our code base. The reason
for forking them in was likely due to an old requirement that we need to
control all the source at KIE, here at Apache or back at Red Hat. At
this moment this is not true, if it ever was.
Problem is these libraries are licensed under GPL and if GPL is used
inside an ASL project it consumes everything and the project is then GPL.
The plan is to remove our fork and use the originals with the GPL
linking exception.
Related ticket: https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-tools/issues/3196
Related dev list thread:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/gsj0mxkzwpcgwztz231tr6tnnx9kxd0g
Linking exception:
https://openjdk.org/legal/gplv2+ce.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception
Toni Rikkola
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