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[jira] [Closed] (LEGAL-251) Can an Apache Project depend upon a
binary-only dependencies available under a permissible license
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-251?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Henri Yandell closed LEGAL-251.
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Resolution: Fixed
Resolving as this appears complete.
> Can an Apache Project depend upon a binary-only dependencies available under a permissible license
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> Key: LEGAL-251
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-251
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Aditya Kishore
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> While researching on this, ran into many related queries and their answers but could not find one which address this specifically.
> In one place, LEGAL-230, it appears it is okay to depend on a binary whose source code is not published but is available under a permissible license.
> To ask it specifically, let's say if there is a binary version of a library, 'foo', available under one of the permissible license but no source is available.
> In such case, can an Apache project
> # Have a compile time dependency on such binary?
> # Include this binary in its distribution?
> Thanks for your help!
> *Updated*: to add specific information.
> [Apache Drill|http://drill.apache.org/] has a pluggable storage plugin model which allows it to access data from variety of data sources.
> One of the plugin, enables access to [MapR-DB|http://www.maprdb.io/] which is a proprietary NoSQL database and thus its client libraries are not released with sources.
> So far the Drill/MapR-DB plugin code is hosted outside of Drill main code base and I was hoping to contribute the maprdb plugin source code with other [storage plugins|https://github.com/apache/drill/tree/master/contrib].
> This plugin code depends upon maprdb client which is not available in source format.
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