[FLINK-12847] Update Kinesis Connectors to latest Apache licensed libraries

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Kinesis
• Labels: pull-request-available

Release Note

After FLINK-12847 flink-connector-kinesis is officially of Apache 2.0 license and its artifact will be deployed to Maven central as part of Flink releases. Users can use the artifact out of shelf and no longer have to build and maintain it on their own.

• Assignee: Dyana Rose
• Reporter: Dyana Rose
• Created: 14/Jun/19 08:04
• Updated: 31/Jan/20 11:05
• Resolved: 30/Aug/19 22:27

Description

Currently the referenced Kinesis Client Library and Kinesis Producer Library code in the flink-connector-kinesis is licensed under the Amazon Software License which is not compatible with the Apache License. This then requires a fair amount of work in the CI pipeline and for users who want to use the flink-connector-kinesis.

The Kinesis Client Library v2.x and the AWS Java SDK v2.x both are now on the Apache 2.0 license.
https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

There is a PR for the Kinesis Producer Library to update it to the Apache 2.0 license (https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-producer/pull/256)

The task should include, but not limited to, upgrading KCL/KPL to new versions of Apache 2.0 license, changing licenses and NOTICE files in flink-connector-kinesis, and adding flink-connector-kinesis to build, CI and artifact publishing pipeline, updating the build profiles, updating documentation that references the license incompatibility

The expected outcome of this issue is that the flink-connector-kinesis will be included with the standard build artifacts and will no longer need to be built separately by users.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: FLINK-8554 Upgrade AWS SDK
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9494