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To comply with the Apache Software Foundation's Software License Criteria, the Apache Fineract CN code base needs to eliminate dependencies which have licenses on the Category X list. Hibernate and MariaDB-related software used in Fineract CN have the LGPL License which may lead to the following unexpected outcome which we wouldn't want to deal with.
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Even though it's not a likely sequence, but because of the size of the negative outcome, we avoid it by not including LGPL (or any other Category X software) in our releases.
- [ FINCN-2 ] Migrate ORM From Hibernate To OpenJPA
- [ FINCN-26 ] Replace MariaDB Driver With Drizzle As JDBC Driver
- [ FINCN-27 ] Remove Dependency On Embedded MariaDB From Component Tests
B. Enable Local Development
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