[Starlingx-discuss] MariaDB and TokuDB module License Issue

[Penney, Don]

Looking at the unmodified source tarball, the storage/tokudb/PerconaFT/README.md file has the following:

License
-------

PerconaFT is available under the GPL version 2, and AGPL version 3.
See [COPYING.AGPLv3][agpllicense],
[COPYING.GPLv2][gpllicense], and
[PATENTS][patents].

[agpllicense]: http://github.com/Percona/PerconaFT/blob/master/COPYING.AGPLv3
[gpllicense]: http://github.com/Percona/PerconaFT/blob/master/COPYING.GPLv2
[patents]: http://github.com/Percona/PerconaFT/blob/master/PATENTS


along with the storage/tokudb/PerconaFT/COPYING.AGPLv3 file.


I expect this is why we had to drop tokudb from the source tarball.

-----Original Message-----
From: Saul Wold [mailto:sgw at linux.intel.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 10:01 AM
To: Penney, Don; starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
Subject: MariaDB and TokuDB module License Issue


Don,

I am looking at a CentOS-8 update and saw the only real change is to 
disable the TokuDB module.  I looked up TokuDB and while it's older, 
it's GPLv2.0, not AGPL as suggested by the spec file.

If we drop that patch and use the upstream MariaDB RPM, will that 
resolve license concern?  I think the only patch to mariadb is to 
disable Toku.

Sau!