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freedesktop.org.xml file license #97

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hadess opened this issue Mar 24, 2021 · 2 comments
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freedesktop.org.xml file license #97

hadess opened this issue Mar 24, 2021 · 2 comments

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hadess commented Mar 24, 2021

I've historically been the maintainer of shared-mime-info for around 15 years, and script/freedesktop.org.xml looks like it's a copy of the database shipped with shared-mime-info, which is released under the GPL, with shared-mime-info's translators work merged in, and the GPL header removed.
The license that you're shipping mimemagic under (MIT) isn't compatible with shared-mime-info's.
There are a number of possibilities to fix this problem:

  • change the mimemagic license to be GPL compatible
  • parse the XML file that shared-mime-info ships at runtime, and don't ship it in a codebase with an incompatible license

Using a GPL file as a source makes your whole codebase a derived work, making it all GPL, so I think it's pretty important that this problem gets corrected before somebody uses it in a pure MIT codebase, or a closed-source application.

You will also need to re-add the GPL header to the shared-mime-info XML file as a matter of urgency. It was stripped in release tarballs by the tool used to merge translations, but is visible in the .in version of the same file.
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minad commented Mar 24, 2021

Thank you for notifying me. I changed the license of the project to GPLv2.

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hadess commented Mar 24, 2021

Thanks a lot for responding this quickly, and the swift resolution, much appreciated :)

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*All* versions of mimemagic below 0.3.6 were janked due to
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mimemagicrb/mimemagic#97
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Update mimemagic
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All versions prior to 0.3.6 have been pulled by the developer, presumably due to a security vulnerability. [1]

[1] Conversation on the repo mimemagicrb/mimemagic#98
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Add lockfiles to gitignore
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These don't really make sense for a library, as they are testing just
one out of many possible manifest configurations.

This has the inadvertent effect of fixing the build, as it would
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mimemagicrb/mimemagic#97 which led to a
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Change license to GPLv2 (Fix mimemagicrb#97)
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