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on Thursday March 25 2021, @10:57AM
from the check-for-dependencies-of-dependencies dept.
from the check-for-dependencies-of-dependencies dept.
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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Dependency Yanked Over Licensing Mishap Breaks Rails Worldwide
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(Score: 4, Informative) by pendorbound on Thursday March 25 2021, @11:28PM (1 child)
The GPL is not and never has been a contract. It’s a grant of copyright license. Exchange of valuable consideration only applies to contract law. A copyright license grants you permission to use a copyrighted work if and only if you accept all terms that the grant is contingent on. If you don’t accept the terms, you don’t get a license and can’t use the work. No exchange of consideration is needed. The license is take it or leave it. Accept the terms or don’t use the work. Violate the terms and use the work anyways, and you’re infringing the copyright.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday March 26 2021, @08:57AM
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