Dual license API?

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 04/20/2018 06:29 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote:
> Hi all,
>    We recently had to remove the benchmarking code from Apache ORC, because
> GPL-code isn't usable in Apache projects. That is unfortunate, because I
> think JMH is a great tool for understanding performance in Java.
> 
>   Would it be possible to dual license JMH to help more projects adopt it?

JMH follows the license of its parent project: OpenJDK, which is GPLv2 + Classpath exception. It was
ruled to be appropriate during the initial JMH contribution. Changing the license (including
dual-licensing) for the JMH is not something we would immediately consider. Alas, if ASF rules
prohibit these kind of dependencies, we cannot do much here.

-Aleksey