jbonofre commented on issue #2491: URL: https://github.com/apache/polaris/issues/2491#issuecomment-3253157608
Due to license constraint (MySQL JDBC driver is using GPL, https://downloads.mysql.com/docs/licenses/connector-j-9.4-gpl-en.pdf) it's not possible to ship and distribute MySQL JDBC driver as part of Polaris distribution. Unfortunately, MariaDB JDBC driver is not much better as it uses LGPL (https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-j/blob/main/LICENSE). Both GPL and LGPL are Category X for ASF projects (https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html). The only possible approach that I see is to document how to create custom distribution including MySQL/MariaDB JDBC driver. The user can create the distribution (with MySQL support), but we can't distribution MySQL/MariaDB driver by default. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
