This Program is Illegally Packaged in 14 Distributions

• encoding_rs

  8 357 6.3 Rust

  A Gecko-oriented implementation of the Encoding Standard in Rust

Author of ripgrep here.

Maybe, umm, don't depend on auto-detection tools as the ultimeate source of whether something is appropriately licensed or not? encoding_rs is clearly licensed, otherwise I wouldn't have used it in ripgrep: https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs

Take it up with the auto-detection tools. Or at least do your due diligence before claiming ripgrep is using "unlicensed" code.

• godiff

  5 6 10.0 Go

  Unified diff file parser in Go (now with comments!)

To add, as the article says, the GH issue[0] was posted on Dec 18, 2020 by Norwin @noerw who is a member of the Gitea GitHub organization[1], so Gitea is definitely well-intentioned on clarifying the license of code it uses.

0: https://github.com/seletskiy/godiff/issues/4

1: https://github.com/orgs/go-gitea/people?query=noerw

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ryu

  1 555 6.4 Rust

  Fast floating point to string conversion (by dtolnay)

• plover

  55 2,248 7.1 Python

  Open source stenotype engine

  

Some distributions take this more seriously than others. Debian, historically, is the largest stickler about this. I've had to delay packaging things for licensing problems[1], written 1000+ line d/copyright files[2], etc. Not all distributions will take the investigations that seriously.

I'm not saying that Debian always gets it right either! Just, there's an emphasis on doing so.

[1]: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/issues/560

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