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Consider re-licensing to AL v2.0, as RocksDB has just done #105
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enis commentedJul 17, 2017
Hi,
The Apache Software Foundation Legal Affairs Committee has announced that the so-called 'Facebook BSD+Patents License' is no longer allowed to be used as a direct dependency in Apache projects.
This has lead to a lot of upset and frustration in the Apache community, especially from projects requiring similarly-licensed code as direct dependencies - the chief of these being RocksDB.
However, we (the Apache Software Foundation) have just received word that RocksDB will be re-licensing their code under the dual Apache License v2.0 and GPL 2 licenses (facebook/rocksdb#2589).
Apache HBase C++ client (HBASE-14850) depends on folly and wangle for implementing async socket IO and async RPC framework. We would kindly ask Wangle to change the license to be an ASF-compatible license, otherwise, as many ASF projects, we have no option but to stop using Wangle.
Please note that folly itself is using Apache License 2.0, and RocksDB have decided to switch their licenses to be the same, and React is deciding on the option:
facebook/rocksdb#2589
facebook/react#10191
Thank you kindly for your consideration.