The Hibernate team is ecstatic to report that we have successfully relicensed Hibernate ORM under the Apache 2.0 license!
As discussed previously, this decision was solely about opening up wider acceptance amongst Apache/Jakarta projects and
other places that (for whatever reasons) disallow the LGPL license.



This was a massive effort on the part of many people and took nearly 2 years to complete.
We are grateful to all the contributors who explicitly agreed to allow the relicensing of their contributions - thank you!


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Hibernate ORM has been successfully relicensed from LGPL to Apache 2.0, effective from version 7.0.0.Beta4 onward. The process took nearly two years and required agreement from all contributors. The change aims to broaden adoption in Apache/Jakarta projects that disallow LGPL. One casualty of the relicensing effort is hibernate-envers, which could not be relicensed due to insufficient contributor agreements and has been temporarily removed from the main repository. Users of hibernate-envers can continue using older LGPL releases or build from the temporary repository. A first Apache 2.0-licensed ORM 7.0 release is expected shortly.

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