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Dependency Yanked Over Licensing Mishap Breaks Rails Worldwide

posted by martyb on Thursday March 25 2021, @10:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the check-for-dependencies-of-dependencies dept.

datapharmer writes:

A 15 year old XML file created a stir in the Ruby on Rails world today as it was discovered that freedesktop.org.xml which is GPL 2 licensed was included improperly in the mimemagic project which was MIT licensed. The author accepted this notification as valid, pulled prior versions, and switched licenses but as this was a dependency of Rails it promptly got the attention of programmers worldwide that rely on the Rails gem for their applications.

Since Rails itself is MIT licensed this makes for a difficult day of sorting out licensing options for many people.

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  • (Score: 2) by KilroySmith on Thursday March 25 2021, @06:42PM (1 child)

    by KilroySmith (2113) on Thursday March 25 2021, @06:42PM (#1128905)

    A bit more complicated than that, from the same FA:
    "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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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday March 26 2021, @09:01AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday March 26 2021, @09:01AM (#1129296) Homepage
    That indeed complicates matters massively.
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