[KAFKA-5977] Upgrade RocksDB dependency to legally acceptable version

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: streams
• Assignee: Guozhang Wang
• Reporter: Stevo Slavić
• Created: 26/Sep/17 09:37
• Updated: 11/Oct/17 00:09
• Resolved: 11/Oct/17 00:09

Description

RocksDB 5.5.5+ seems to be legally acceptable. For more info see

• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-303 and
• https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x

Even latest trunk of Apache Kafka depends on older RocksDB https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/gradle/dependencies.gradle#L67

If I'm not mistaken, this makes all current Apache Kafka 0.10+ releases not legally acceptable Apache products.

Please consider upgrading the dependency. If possible please include the change in Apache Kafka 1.0.0 release, if not also in patch releases of older still supported 0.x Apache Kafka branches.

Issue Links

• is related to: KAFKA-5576 Support Power platform by updating rocksdb version