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Rewrite the COPYRIGHT file #39897
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Something like the |
docs team triage: tagging p-medium |
Some changes to COPYRIGHT were done in #43498 |
It would be useful for people who ship compiler output but who don't ship the compiler with the output if the COPYRIGHT file clearly distinguished between licenses that apply to the compiler and licenses that apply to compiler output. For the latter case, it would also be useful to characterize under what condition certain licenses apply to the compiler output. One would hope the if jemalloc is disabled, the jemalloc license doesn't apply and if compiling with |
I really like the way you explained this. Extremely useful information. |
Triage: it's not clear to me what purpose COPYRIGHT serves, and what its requirements are, so it's hard to know what to do here. Some clarity from @rust-lang/core would be good. |
@rust-lang/core Could you maybe give us some clarity on the purpose of the COPYRIGHT file such that we can solve this issue? |
@steveklabnik You're the only one I know that I can ask this :) Do you know who we can ping directly to get input for this so that we can fix the issue? |
I am going to add this to the core team triage agenda so that we work on getting legal advice on this. |
@carols10cents Thanks! Let us know when there's something we can do :) |
closing this as the council issue should be good enough to keep track of this issue |
This file may be more misleading than not at this point. It has not been kept up to date. I'm not sure the best thing to do here, but maintenance needs to be a concern, particularly now that the flow of crates into tree is opened. Listing the license of every single thing in tree is too hard for humans to do manually.
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