Part of the code is under GPL2

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Part of the code is under GPL2

Closed this issue 8 months ago · 5 comments

Pointed out in code review is that buffer.h and buffer.c seem to be derived from Houdini buffer.h and Houdini buffer.c which are available under GPL2 with a linking exception and originally came from libgit2

Answer 1 · 2023-09-03T20:51:59.000Z

buffer was added by @vmg who at the time was working for GitHub, where this code was developed.
@vmg certified in commonmark/commonmark-spec#269 that the license was correct.

Answer 2 · 2023-09-03T21:27:57.000Z

By the way @vmg is also one of the libgit2 contributors. Hopefully @vmg can comment here to clarify things.

Answer 3 · 2023-09-04T09:03:21.000Z

The PR in commonmark/commonmark-spec#269 is the authoritative source for licensing information.

@vmg certifies by merging this PR that the license and copyright information are accurate.

I approved that PR and re-licensed the code under the same permissive license as the rest of cmark. There is no GPLv2 code in cmark because that would make the library useless.

Answer 4 · 2023-09-23T06:45:29.000Z

Thanks. A related issue is the copyright notices on utf8.h and utf8.c

github#348

Answer 5 · 2023-09-23T07:24:58.000Z

Associated pull request #483