Hello In general with all such things ASF and licensing a great place to start for information is here [1]. It lays out the different categories and how ASF Legal has designated a given license.
The way to really consider this largely comes down to whether you package that binary in a release you make available. Based on the POM this implies to me the JAR is only pulled by someone taking the source release and then building it. So in terms of the official apache source release you'd do as part of KIE you're fine since this is not in the source. Then you consider your convenience binary build if you have one. If this is only with tests then it is clearly optional provided it doesn't end up in the actual build results of the project. In your source release anything in Category A is fair game. Things in Category B are not. Things in Category X never are. In your convenience binary release (if you have one) anything in Category A is fair game. Anything in Category B can be fair game as well. Anything in Category X is generally a no unless is an optional package and you generally want to ensure the user is grabbing that dependency and bringing it to the resulting build as you cannot ship it. Biggest advice here is to become really familiar with these categories and which licenses are there. I do not see the Oracle Free License listed so I'd handle that as Category X until reviewed. [1] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html Thanks On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 8:39 AM Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez < juanpablo.san...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I'd say the situation has changed a bit, as those jars are available at > central since version 19.3, IIRC ([#1]). > > They are published under Oracle Free Use Term and Conditions (FUCT) license > ([#2]), so I'd check again with legal to see if this license is allowed or > not. > > > HTH, > juan pablo > > > [#1] https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:com.oracle.database.jdbc > [#2 <https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:com.oracle.database.jdbc[#2>] > https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/oracle-free-license.html > > El mié, 10 ene 2024, 16:23, Alex Porcelli <porce...@apache.org> escribió: > > > In KIE podling we have reference for the Oracle JDBC driver being used > > only for tests [1], however based on this ticket [2], it's not clear > > if we can continue to use it or this dependency has to be removed. > > > > Guidance on this topic would be highly appreciated! > > > > Regards, > > Alex > > > > [1] > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-runtimes/blob/3aa26113d7e88f0fd7d0331ec20fe392f343afb6/kogito-test-utils/pom.xml#L89-L99 > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-526 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > >
