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Misleading license info #92

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hannob opened this issue Oct 18, 2019 · 0 comments
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Misleading license info #92

hannob opened this issue Oct 18, 2019 · 0 comments

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hannob commented Oct 18, 2019

I'd like to bring up an issue and ask if this is intentional or a mistake.

The "go-couchbase" repo says it's MIT licensed. However this looks quite misleading because at various places code from goutils is used. The license of that repo [1] is clearly a proprietary license and not anything alike a MIT license.

This essentially means every package including go-couchbase will inadvertently include non-free code. This came up in a discussion at Gentoo due to the Gitea package including that code [2]. I also reported this to Gitea [3].

Please either consider relicensing goutils or make at least clear that go-couchbase is not just "MIT-licensed", but also includes proprietary code.

[1] https://github.com/couchbase/goutils/blob/master/LICENSE.md
[2] gentoo/gentoo#12597
[3] go-gitea/gitea#8575

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