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compliance-backend
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mimemagic
Powerful and versatile MIME sniffing package using pre-compiled glob patterns, magic number signatures, XML document namespaces, and tree magic for mounted volumes, generated from the XDG shared-mime-info database. (by zRedShift)
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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
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minad/mimemagic is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of mimemagic is Ruby.
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