diff --git a/api/src/main/java/module-info.java b/api/src/main/java/module-info.java
index e107c72c..cf6617b9 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  * A set of Java interfaces, annotations, and programming models which allow Java developers to natively produce OpenAPI
  * documents from Jakarta RESTful Web Services applications.
  */
+@SuppressWarnings("module") // silence warning about unstable name `osgi.annotation`
 module org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi {
 
     exports org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi;
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@
     exports org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi.models.tags;
     exports org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi.spi;
 
+    uses org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi.spi.OASFactoryResolver;
+
     // Required for compilation, not used at runtime
     requires static osgi.annotation;
 
diff --git a/spi/pom.xml b/spi/pom.xml
index 8ab4eeaa..3d7f7a15 100644
--- a/spi/pom.xml
+++ b/spi/pom.xml
@@ -25,13 +25,7 @@
 
     <artifactId>microprofile-openapi-spi</artifactId>
     <name>MicroProfile OpenAPI SPI</name>
-    <description>
-        MicroProfile OpenAPI :: SPI
-
-        This module is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of MicroProfile
-        OpenAPI. The functionality offered by this module is available in the microprofile-openapi-api
-        module which should be used instead.
-    </description>
+    <description>MicroProfile OpenAPI :: SPI</description>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
@@ -43,4 +37,6 @@
             <artifactId>microprofile-openapi-api</artifactId>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
+
+
 </project>
diff --git a/spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/microprofile/openapi/spi/OASFactoryResolver.java b/spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/microprofile/openapi/spi/OASFactoryResolver.java
index c67414f3..bef662e5 100644
--- a/spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/microprofile/openapi/spi/OASFactoryResolver.java
+++ b/spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/microprofile/openapi/spi/OASFactoryResolver.java
@@ -31,11 +31,7 @@
  * Service provider for OASFactoryResolver. The implementation registers itself via the {@link java.util.ServiceLoader}
  * mechanism or by manually setting their implementation using the setInstance method.
  *
- * @deprecated the OASFactoryResolver available in module
- *             {@code org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi:microprofile-openapi-api} should be used instead of this version
- *             which will be removed in a future major release.
  */
-@Deprecated(forRemoval = true)
 public abstract class OASFactoryResolver {
 
     private static volatile OASFactoryResolver instance = null;
diff --git a/spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/microprofile/openapi/spi/package-info.java b/spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/microprofile/openapi/spi/package-info.java
index 2560ea61..01cc8df4 100644
--- a/spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/microprofile/openapi/spi/package-info.java
+++ b/spi/src/main/java/org/eclipse/microprofile/openapi/spi/package-info.java
@@ -13,11 +13,7 @@
 
 /**
  * Service provider interface which allows vendors to set their implementations of OASFactoryResolver.
- * <p>
- * The {@code org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi.spi} package available in module
- * {@code org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi:microprofile-openapi-api} should be used instead of this version which will
- * be removed in a future major release.
  */
-@Deprecated(forRemoval = true)
+
 @org.osgi.annotation.versioning.Version("1.0")
-package org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi.spi;
+package org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi.spi;
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