emberian commented 8 years ago

This issue was automatically generated. Feel free to close without ceremony if you do not agree with re-licensing or if it is not possible for other reasons. Respond to @cmr with any questions or concerns, or pop over to #rust-offtopic on IRC to discuss.

You're receiving this because someone (perhaps the project maintainer) published a crates.io package with the license as "MIT" xor "Apache-2.0" and the repository field pointing here.

TL;DR the Rust ecosystem is largely Apache-2.0. Being available under that license is good for interoperation. The MIT license as an add-on can be nice for GPLv2 projects to use your code.

Why?

The MIT license requires reproducing countless copies of the same copyright header with different names in the copyright field, for every MIT library in use. The Apache license does not have this drawback. However, this is not the primary motivation for me creating these issues. The Apache license also has protections from patent trolls and an explicit contribution licensing clause. However, the Apache license is incompatible with GPLv2. This is why Rust is dual-licensed as MIT/Apache (the "primary" license being Apache, MIT only for GPLv2 compat), and doing so would be wise for this project. This also makes this crate suitable for inclusion and unrestricted sharing in the Rust standard distribution and other projects using dual MIT/Apache, such as my personal ulterior motive, the Robigalia project.

Some ask, "Does this really apply to binary redistributions? Does MIT really require reproducing the whole thing?" I'm not a lawyer, and I can't give legal advice, but some Google Android apps include open source attributions using this interpretation. Others also agree with it. But, again, the copyright notice redistribution is not the primary motivation for the dual-licensing. It's stronger protections to licensees and better interoperation with the wider Rust ecosystem.

How?

To do this, get explicit approval from each contributor of copyrightable work (as not all contributions qualify for copyright, due to not being a "creative work", e.g. a typo fix) and then add the following to your README:

## License

Licensed under either of

 * Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
 * MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

### Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any
additional terms or conditions.

and in your license headers, if you have them, use the following boilerplate (based on that used in Rust):

// Copyright 2016 gfx Developers
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, <LICENSE-APACHE or
// http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license <LICENSE-MIT or
// http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your option. This file may not be
// copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms.

It's commonly asked whether license headers are required. I'm not comfortable making an official recommendation either way, but the Apache license recommends it in their appendix on how to use the license.

Be sure to add the relevant LICENSE-{MIT,APACHE} files. You can copy these from the Rust repo for a plain-text version.

And don't forget to update the license metadata in your Cargo.toml to:

license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"

I'll be going through projects which agree to be relicensed and have approval by the necessary contributors and doing this changes, so feel free to leave the heavy lifting to me!

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Or, if you're a contributor, you can check the box in this repo next to your name. My scripts will pick this exact phrase up and check your checkbox, but I'll come through and manually review this issue later as well.

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serpis commented 8 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

milibopp commented 8 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

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I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

andrew-d commented 8 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

KokaKiwi commented 8 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

olsonjeffery commented 8 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

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I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

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I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

red75prime commented 8 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

cl91 commented 8 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option. On 11 Jan 2016 16:13, "red75prime" notifications@github.com wrote:

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues/847#issuecomment-170422297.

jeremija commented 8 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

ghost commented 8 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option

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bfops commented 8 years ago

I approve the relicensing of my contributions.

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munshkr commented 8 years ago

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emberian commented 8 years ago

Pinging due to @-mention limit:

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farism commented 8 years ago

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kvark commented 7 years ago

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jahfer commented 7 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

Kimundi commented 7 years ago

I license past and future contributions under the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, allowing licensees to chose either at their option.

gfx-rs / gfx

Relicense under dual MIT/Apache-2.0 #847

Why?

How?

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