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BSD or MIT

Open igor-raits opened this issue 5 years ago • 5 comments

Hello, Cargo.toml lists BSD OR MIT, however LICENSE file contains only info about BSD... Who is right?

igor-raits avatar Dec 14 '19 17:12 igor-raits

I suppose the license file is right... I can adjust the Cargo.toml both licenses are sufficiently permissive that they are quite compatible.

danielrh avatar Dec 16 '19 18:12 danielrh

Looks like this issue is still unresolved as of today?

decathorpe avatar Aug 10 '22 20:08 decathorpe

Most Rust projects prefer to use Apache OR MIT approach because MIT is not very compatible with GPL (if my memory is serving me right), and so having two clause approach allows users to use code everywhere more freely.

nyurik avatar Mar 19 '24 20:03 nyurik

Then the license text for MIT should probably be added to this repo too?

The current license file (https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli/blob/master/LICENSE) file only contains the BSD-3-Clause license text, but the MIT license requires that license text is included with redistributed sources.

Usually dual-licensed crates handle this by having two separate license files (i.e. LICENSE-Apache and LICENSE-MIT, in most cases).

MIT is not very compatible with GPL

As far as I know, the problem wrt/ GPL compatibility is actually caused by the Apache-2.0 license, not the MIT license.

decathorpe avatar Mar 19 '24 23:03 decathorpe

Hmmm should probably copy the license from https://github.com/google/brotli/blob/master/LICENSE

danielrh avatar Mar 19 '24 23:03 danielrh