Hi,

I am thinking why spring-boot-starter-data-jpa depends on LGPL
licensed library "hibernate-core", and can still be Apache 2.0
licensed.
I am reading [1]. In section 5 it says:

A program that contains no derivative of any portion of the Library,
but is designed to work with the Library by being compiled or linked
with it, is called a "work that uses the Library". Such a work, in
isolation, is not a derivative work of the Library, and therefore
falls outside the scope of this License.

I think spring-boot-starter-data-jpa falls in to this case. It is a
"work that uses the Library".

The source code of incubator-dubbo-admin should also falls into this
case, because it does not contain any portion of the hibernate-core.
Based on it and explanation here[2], I think the source code can be
released anyway. Is my understanding correct?

Next, the LGPL license says:

However, linking a "work that uses the Library" with the Library
creates an executable that is a derivative of the Library (because it
contains portions of the Library), rather than a "work that uses the
library". The executable is therefore covered by this License.

The binary distribution of incuabator-dubbo-admin falls into this case
because it creates an executable that contains binary of
hibernate-core. Therefore it is a "work based on the library". As a
derivative of hibernate-core, it must be licensed with LGPL/GPL, which
is not allowed as an Apache product, and eventually causes the
incompatibility.

If my understanding is correct, there are at least 4 ways to solve this issue:
1. Stop distribute the binary of incubator-dubbo-admin
2. Make the feature optional, as explained here[3]
3. Stop depending on hiberante-core
4. Choose other Apache compatible equivalent

I recommend to go with number 3 in my last thread.


[1] https://opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1
[2] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#prohibited
[3] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 10:40 AM Huxing Zhang <hux...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> ccing dev@dubbo
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 8:24 AM Willem Jiang <willem.ji...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just checked the binary release kit, it has the third party
> > dependency of LGPL (Hibernate core) which is belonged to Cataloge
> > X[1],  it cannot be included in Apache Product.
> > I had to vote -1 for it. We can change the ORM lib to Eclipse Link to
> > fix this issue, I just fill an issue here[2].
>
> I did some dig for this issue and confirm that this is introduced by
> this pull request[1].
> The purpose of this pull request is to introduce the pagination to
> service query.
> In this pull request a dependency to spring-boot-starter-data-jpa was added,
> which introduce the LGPL licensed dependency hibernate-core.
> The detailed dependency tree is shown below:
>
> [INFO] +- 
> org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa:jar:2.0.2.RELEASE:compile
> [INFO] |  +- 
> org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-aop:jar:2.0.2.RELEASE:compile
> [INFO] |  |  \- org.aspectj:aspectjweaver:jar:1.8.13:compile
> [INFO] |  +- 
> org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jdbc:jar:2.0.2.RELEASE:compile
> [INFO] |  |  +- com.zaxxer:HikariCP:jar:2.7.9:compile
> [INFO] |  |  \- org.springframework:spring-jdbc:jar:5.0.6.RELEASE:compile
> [INFO] |  +- org.hibernate:hibernate-core:jar:5.2.17.Final:compile
> [INFO] |  |  +-
> org.hibernate.javax.persistence:hibernate-jpa-2.1-api:jar:1.0.0.Final:compile
> [INFO] |  |  +- antlr:antlr:jar:2.7.7:compile
> [INFO] |  |  +- org.jboss:jandex:jar:2.0.3.Final:compile
> [INFO] |  |  +- dom4j:dom4j:jar:1.6.1:compile
> [INFO] |  |  \-
> org.hibernate.common:hibernate-commons-annotations:jar:5.0.1.Final:compile
> [INFO] |  +- javax.transaction:javax.transaction-api:jar:1.2:compile
> [INFO] |  +- 
> org.springframework.data:spring-data-jpa:jar:2.0.7.RELEASE:compile
> [INFO] |  |  +-
> org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons:jar:2.0.7.RELEASE:compile
> [INFO] |  |  +- org.springframework:spring-orm:jar:5.0.6.RELEASE:compile
> [INFO] |  |  \- org.springframework:spring-tx:jar:5.0.6.RELEASE:compile
> [INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-aspects:jar:5.0.6.RELEASE:compile
>
> Actually the hiberate-core dependency is never used when implementing
> the feature,
> I think it can be excluded quietly. This is the safest way to solve this 
> issue.
> To dig further, the only dependency that required to be added is just
> spring-data-commons,
> which is Apache 2.0 Licensed[2]. (I just confirm the code can compile
> and start correctly with spring-data-commons,
> it might need to check more at runtime to ensure everything is working)
>
> We need to be very careful when new dependency is added,  and ensure
> all the license (including transitive dependencies) are compatible
> with Apache.
>
> The community has identified several similar issues [3][4] for
> incubator-dubbo project, and similar actions should be done to
> incubator-dubbo-admin as well.
>
> To identify the issue automatically, I run the following command:
>
> mvn license:add-third-party -Dlicense.useMissingFile
>
> and grep the output:
>
> cat dubbo-admin-server/target/generated-sources/license/THIRD-PARTY.txt|
> grep "General Public License"
>      (Eclipse Public License - v 1.0) (GNU Lesser General Public
> License) Logback Classic Module (ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.2.3
> - http://logback.qos.ch/logback-classic)
>      (Eclipse Public License - v 1.0) (GNU Lesser General Public
> License) Logback Core Module (ch.qos.logback:logback-core:1.2.3 -
> http://logback.qos.ch/logback-core)
>      (GNU Lesser General Public License) Core Hibernate O/RM
> functionality (org.hibernate:hibernate-core:5.2.17.Final -
> http://hibernate.org)
>      (GNU Lesser General Public License) Hibernate Commons Annotations
> (org.hibernate.common:hibernate-commons-annotations:5.0.1.Final -
> http://hibernate.org)
>
> The last 2 are both introduced by hibernate-core. A script to check
> license issue for dependencies was on the way[5].
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo-admin/pull/324
> [2] 
> https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-commons/blob/master/src/main/resources/license.txt
> [3] 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2231c58509842fe4069f2091f00ea7fd5c4e6ae4bf8ce1a97b16e9c5@%3Cdev.dubbo.apache.org%3E
> [4] 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e3112c832415850779af2fe04aa7325d8d776144f3939cc63f5eab08@%3Cdev.dubbo.apache.org%3E
> [5] https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo/issues/3840
>
> >
> > [1]https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x
> > [2]https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo-admin/issues/366
> >
> > Willem Jiang
> >
> > Twitter: willemjiang
> > Weibo: 姜宁willem
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:24 AM Minxuan Zhuang <z82507...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Incubator Community,
> > >
> > > The Apache Dubbo community has voted on and approved a proposal to release
> > > Apache Dubbo Admin (Incubating) version 0.2.0.
> > >
> > > We now kindly request the Incubator PMC members review and vote on this
> > > incubator release.
> > >
> > > Apache Dubbo™ (incubating) is a high-performance, java based, open source
> > > RPC framework. Dubbo offers three key functionalities, which include
> > > interface based remote call, fault tolerance & load balancing, and
> > > automatic service registration & discovery.
> > >
> > >
> > > Dubbo community vote and result thread:
> > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/fc71a5f8c93b8c3606338b97a08c044af64ca3165e226aed37295a45@%3Cdev.dubbo.apache.org%3E
> > >
> > > The release candidates (RC3):
> > > *https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/dubbo/dubbo-admin/0.2.0
> > > <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/dubbo/dubbo-admin/0.2.0/>/*
> > >
> > >
> > > Git tag for the release (RC3):
> > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo-admin/releases/tag/0.2.0
> > >
> > > Hash for the release tag:
> > > 37e23a7354e3da50914e075eb4676c7c2875ffa7
> > >
> > > Release Notes:
> > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo-admin/releases/tag/0.2.0
> > >
> > >
> > > The artifacts have been signed with Key :
> > > DA2108479B0C1E71, which can be
> > > found in the keys file:
> > > *https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/dubbo/KEYS
> > > <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/dubbo/KEYS>*
> > >
> > > The vote will be open for at least 72 hours or until necessary number of
> > > votes are reached.
> > >
> > > Please vote accordingly:
> > >
> > > [ ] +1 approve
> > > [ ] +0 no opinion
> > > [ ] -1 disapprove with the reason
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > The Apache Dubbo (Incubating) Team
> >
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>
> --
> Best Regards!
> Huxing



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