gpl v3 license in https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/master/test%20cases/format/2%20muon/crazy_comments.meson

[vchhasatia]

Hello meson Team,

I was confused to see GPL v3 licensed file https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/master/test%20cases/format/2%20muon/crazy_comments.meson.

I was wondering if you plan to relicense it under Apache 2.0.

Thank you for your time.

[eli-schwartz]

@bruchar1 @annacrombie

[bruchar1]

Oups! I took that file from muon test cases: https://git.sr.ht/~lattis/muon/tree/master/item/tests/fmt/crazy_comments.meson

Having a licence on that test file doesn't really make sense imho. Not sure what I should do about that. Should I just modify it enough so it doesn't look like a license violation?

[annacrombie]

Hi, muon is using https://reuse.software/ which requires that every file in the repo has a license and copyright. I'm not really sure on the legality of this but I give my consent to just remove the copyright in meson's version 😄.

[eli-schwartz]

Hi, muon is using https://reuse.software/ which requires that every file in the repo has a license and copyright. I'm not really sure on the legality of this but I give my consent to just remove the copyright in meson's version 😄.

If you are the sole author of the file then your consent to have it be licensed under the meson (Apache) license is all it takes.

[eli-schwartz]

"we have permission" is perhaps a bit less precise than

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only OR Apache-2.0

Which would indicate it has been relicensed with permission for use by meson, rather than "permission granted to use it anyway".

[dcbaker]

I like @eli-schwartz's suggestion.