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mimemagic relicensing (and replacement) #5

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vielmetti opened this issue Sep 18, 2023 · 1 comment
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mimemagic relicensing (and replacement) #5

vielmetti opened this issue Sep 18, 2023 · 1 comment

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@vielmetti
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mimemagic was MIT licensed, but it turned out to have been derived from the GPLv2 shared-mime-info package. This Rails dependency was relicensed and then subsequently removed from Rails in favor of Marcel which had a similar (but different) database.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/29/rails_mime_fix/
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/25/ruby_rails_code/
mimemagicrb/mimemagic#97

A bunch of projects broke temporarily until the replacement was put into place, as the previous MIT-licensed versions were removed from public access.

@marclaporte
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Can you make a PR? https://github.com/caniszczyk/rugpulls.dev/pulls

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