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filestack / filestack-ruby

Official Ruby SDK for Filestack - API and content management system that makes it easy to add powerful file uploading and transformation capabilities to any web or mobile application.
https://www.filestack.com
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Yanked mimemagic versions and GPL2 #77

Closed PhilCoggins closed 3 years ago

PhilCoggins commented 3 years ago

Early this morning, mimemagic (a dependency in your project) resolved a licensing issue by updating their license from MIT to GPL 2 and yanking all old versions. The maintainer has made 0.3.6 available which resolves the mimemagic (~> 0.3.2) dependency, but it is now licensed as GPL 2, which (IANAL) makes all derived works (including your library, and users of your library) GPL 2.

See https://github.com/minad/mimemagic/issues/97, https://github.com/minad/mimemagic/issues/98, and https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/41750.

There is a MIT-compatible fork in the works. My question is, does Filestack plan to update their libraries to not be a derived work of GPL 2?

Related: https://github.com/filestack/filestack-ruby/pull/76

PhilCoggins commented 3 years ago

Update: Mimemagic now has a new maintainer who has reimplemented the library to be MIT-compatible, all GPL licensed-versions have been yanked. The library requires the external dependency shared-mime-info which requires installation on MacOS and smaller linux distros, it may be helpful to update your Readme with this information (happy to help with that, just let me know!)

thushw commented 3 years ago

What is the advise for filestack users?

gabifija commented 3 years ago

I'm going to update the version to 0.3.8.

gabifija commented 3 years ago

@PhilCoggins @thushw - Please check already released filestack 2.9.0. Let me know if it works as expected.

marshals commented 3 years ago

@gabifija Thanks. Looks like you may want to update it to 0.3.9 for https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/issues/106

gabifija commented 3 years ago

@gabifija Thanks. Looks like you may want to update it to 0.3.9 for mimemagicrb/mimemagic#106

Thank you! Updated. Let me know if you notice any issues. I'll fix that.