# 12. The OSS license service

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Chapter [7](07-why-there-is-no-undo.md) found that Flyway Community gates certain commands behind
a runtime `FlywayRedgateEditionRequiredException`. Liquibase Community 5.0 shipped something new
alongside its license change (chapter [13](13-the-fsl-license-change.md)): a `liquibase.license`
package, inside `liquibase-core` itself, that didn't exist in 4.x.
[`LiquibaseLicenseServiceTest`](../src/test/java/com/ankurm/dbmigrations/liquibase/LiquibaseLicenseServiceTest.java)
doesn't read about what that package does — it asks the actual service Spring Boot's
`LiquibaseAutoConfiguration` runs on top of, directly:

```
implementation: liquibase.license.OSSLicenseService
licenseIsInstalled(): false
licenseIsValid("any"): false
getLicenseInfo(): ""
```

(from [`docs/output/14-liquibase-oss-license-service.txt`](output/14-liquibase-oss-license-service.txt))

On the classpath this module uses — Community only, no Liquibase Pro artifact anywhere — the
license service Liquibase actually wires up is `OSSLicenseService`, which reports itself as
unlicensed and returns an empty license description. **This test found no evidence of functional
gating anywhere in the classpath this module runs on**: `update()`, `rollback()`, and every
changeset type this module exercises worked identically whether or not a license was present,
because none of them ever asked the license service anything. That's a meaningfully different
shape from Flyway's stub-and-throw pattern in chapter [7](07-why-there-is-no-undo.md) — Liquibase
Pro's paid features live in separate, additional artifacts rather than as gated stubs inside the
Community jar.

## Going deeper

- This test is a snapshot of Liquibase 5.0.3's Community classpath, not a guarantee about future releases — the license service's existence at all, brand new in 5.0, is itself evidence that Liquibase's commercial boundary is actively being redrawn (chapter [13](13-the-fsl-license-change.md) covers why).
- [Liquibase Pro feature comparison](https://www.liquibase.com/pricing) (`rel="nofollow"`) — what Pro actually adds, as separate functionality rather than unlocked stubs.