mimemagic
mimemagic
mimemagic | mimemagic | |
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370 | 416 | |
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4.1 | 0.0 | |
about 3 years ago | 6 months ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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mimemagic
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MimeMagic versions prior to 0.3.6 have been yanked from RubyGems and it's GPL 2.0 now
pretty clear that they copied GPL code, needed to relicense as GPL. they did a booboo https://github.com/minad/mimemagic/issues/97
His initial commit from 12 years ago referred to ‘shared-mime-info’ in this line: Blame: https://github.com/minad/mimemagic/blame/master/script/freedesktop.org.xml
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Removed Gem “Breaks” Rails ActiveStorage
Not so fast in that claim.
First of all the infringing file is https://github.com/minad/mimemagic/blob/master/script/freede.... Sure, it is in XML. But it contains a tremendous amount of free-form text, specific sets of pattern matching rules for the data types, and so on. It is a compilation of sometimes original research on the best ways to detect file types. Ruby has other mime libraries. The reason why this one was chosen is that its detection algorithms make better choices. And the reason that they make better choices is that they copied the decision rules from a GPLed project.
But even if it were a simple compilation, it still is not guaranteed that there is no copyright. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_compilation for an introductory article on what can and can't be copyrighted about a compilation. And one of the elements that matters is creativity in the selection of the material. A set of rules with a lot of "look for this" while leaving out various reasonable thats that don't work so well shows considerable creativity.
That said, a judge may decide otherwise. You never know until a judge decides. But I would not presume that there is no copyright interest to be had here.
- Mimemagic Is Now GPLv2
- Mimemagic gem yank disrupts Rails installations
mimemagic
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Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
If you're curious, here's how I solved it for ruby back in the day. Still used magic bytes, but added an overlay on top of the freedesktop.org DB: https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/pull/20
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mimemagic 0.3.0
Get it directly from github commit.
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Releases 0.9.299 - 0.9.305: Change Log
[AO3-6152] - Due to a licensing incident with a Rails dependency known as mimemagic, we had to update Rails to 5.2.5 and mimemagic to 0.3.6.
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Can You Not use Applications Built with Older Versions of Ruby?
I don't think mimemagic works on Windows after the drama. I opened a PR for that a month ago but no one seems to care: https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/pull/141
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Perfect Motherf****** Website
"License, motherfucker"
I know the vulgarity of the statements is tongue in cheek, but this one has been reinforced lately by the "MIME Magic" debacle[1], mama mia.
[1] https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/issues/98
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The current state of package invalidation support across package managers
it has a licensing issue
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Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects
https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/commit/749a7e59de480b7c0373acc4f8ceb4444352ba46#diff-2ea7e2364883967953ab518a8316b639e612b8a6f20eadb7b97939d91c8e2612
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Rails 5.2.5, 6.0.3.6 and 6.1.3.1 have been released [removed dependency on mimemagic]
On the other hand mimemagic provides by_magic https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic#usage which does detection by heuristic. It's a radically different method for a radically different use case.
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All versions of mimemagic on Rubygems.org are now MIT-licensed
Anyway, I created a PR addressing new Mimemagic not working on Windows https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/pull/141
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When someone yanks all prior versions of a gem that is a dependency of rails.
Someone broke the internet for rails https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/issues/98
What are some alternatives?
gemstash - A RubyGems.org cache and private gem server
marcel - Find the mime type of files, examining file, filename and declared type
savant-core - This is the main project for the Savant build tool
Ruby on Rails - Ruby on Rails
mini_mime - minimal mime type library