jol-core is GPL about slice HOT 7 CLOSED

Ok, let me see how we can break the hard dependency. I’m still surprised it’s an issue for Apache, since that’s the license used by the JDK.

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JOL is licensed under “GPL with classpath exception”, just like all the classes in the JDK. We only use the public APIs in JOL, which are covered by the exception.

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That still leaves it Category X from Apache's point of view, which means that we can't depend on it in Apache projects. Feel free to close this issue if you don't consider it a problem for your users.

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BTW, the only reason aircompressor depends on Slice is for the XXHash64 implementation that's used to compute checksums in ZSTD. One possibility is to split out the XXHash64 implementation into a separate project and make it work against byte arrays directly.

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It was fairly easy to extract the parts of XxHash64 that are needed by ZSTD (it only uses the static methods and not the stateful hasher): airlift/aircompressor#100

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Any progress on this one? We hacked around it ORC 1.6, but it is absolutely a hack.

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@omalley aircompressor no longer depends on Slice (and thus JOL) as of release 0.16. (I commented about this on ORC-363 but you probably didn't see it.)

I'm going close this issue since we have no current plans to remove the dependency on JOL in Slice, and I think the actual concern here was aircompressor. If that's not the case, please reopen.

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