[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Possibly problematic license terms: notify / notify-debouncer-mini Rust crates
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 11:30 AM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
However, since I would like to avoid lengthy license terms discussions
with upstream (since not having "notify-debouncer-mini" packaged for
Fedora is blocking updates for some applications), I would prefer
Option 1, if possible.
Circling back to this: The discussion with upstream was very
productive, and they have agreed to simplify the license terms of the
project:
- notify: Was relicensed from "technically CC0-1.0 AND (CC0-1.0 OR
Artistic-2.0 WITH X-foo-bar)" back to just "CC0-1.0" (i.e. back to the
same license as older versions of the project) - the author has agreed
to drop the kinda-Artistic-2.0 license from his contributions.
Upstream is still discussing relicensing to a different license, but
reverting back to just "CC0-1.0" was a simple first step.
- notify-debouncer-mini / notify-debouncer-full: Was relicensed from
"CC0-1.0" to "MIT OR Apache-2.0", as the respective authors have
decided to align the project with the broader Rust ecosystem.
c.f. https://github.com/notify-rs/notify/issues/514
Fabio