[jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-198) Amazon Software License compatibility

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on LEGAL-198:
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Github user jvwing commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/239
  
    @joewitt, would you please help us with the licensing/notice requirements for using the Kinesis Client Library and Kinesis Producer Library?  The Kinesis libraries are licensed under the [Amazon Software License](https://aws.amazon.com/asl/).  This does not appear on the published [list of Apache-compatible licenses](http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a).
    
    The Apache Spark project includes comparable use of the Kinesis library, although they have chosen to [present their Kinesis integration as an optional add-on](http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-kinesis-integration.html).  Comparable code is in fact [checked into the Spark repo](https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/external), but I did not find mention of the ASL in a NOTICE file. I was really hoping to copy and paste.  I found a [JIRA issue raised by the Spark team for the license discussion](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-198) which discusses the add-on nature of the component, but not specific referencing language.
    
    Is this OK?  How can we determine what needs to be added to the NOTICE file in nifi-aws-nar?



> Amazon Software License compatibility
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-198
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-198
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Matei Zaharia
>
> We recently received a patch to add support for the Amazon Kinesis data source in Apache Spark, which uses the following library: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client licensed under the Amazon Software License: https://aws.amazon.com/asl/. Would it be okay to have a Maven dependency on this library in an Apache project? From a quick look at the license, it seems reasonable, but I’d like to double-check. The one restriction that may be strange is "3.3 Use Limitation. The Work and any derivative works thereof only may be used or intended for use with the web services, computing platforms or applications provided by Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, including Amazon Web Services, Inc.”. However, it also says "derivative works shall not include works that remain separable from, or merely link (or bind by name) to the interfaces of, the Work", so I'm not sure our project would be a derivative work.



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