search

sharkdp / bat

A cat(1) clone with wings.
Apache License 2.0
49.48k stars 1.25k forks source link

Policy for syntax licenses #2566

Open reknih opened 1 year ago

reknih commented 1 year ago

It would be great if the README or the assets documentation would mention the licenses eligible for inclusion in bat.

With a very cursory search, I was not able to find licenses other than MIT or Apache 2.0 for syntaxes. Is this a hard criterion? If not, it would be great to have a list of syntaxes with alternative licenses.

Motivation: I would like to use bat's set of syntaxes as a syntect dump in another project and comply with the attribution and copyleft requirement any syntax licenses may have.

keith-hall commented 1 year ago

I believe we accept any license which is compatible with bats license: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/pull/1960

Currently we only automatically reject GPL assets as I can see: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/pull/1961/files#diff-1bbacd0148e7605b127a765f5f0e6c04b84d3c471bac8d2e612a01d9b00cf39c

sharkdp commented 1 year ago

Exactly. Another thing that might be useful is to call bat --acknowledgements, which shows licenses for all syntaxes (and themes) that are included.

Thank you for clarifying this issue before merging https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/771 (awesome project by the way!).