What is the license of NKF?
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Description
A week ago, I have reported licensing issue against Ruby repository:
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20397
Believing that the original upstream is here:
Now I was told that NKF was extracted from Ruby and this is supposedly the place. But how comes that the code from the original upstream, which still seems to be active, got relicensed from zlib to Ruby OR BSD-2-Clause? I mean I see the commits such as ruby/ruby@2e3a7f70ae71650be6ea38a483f66ce17ca5eb1d but that to me seems more like a mistake then anything else, given that even the Ruby LEGAL file still contains information which is likely wrong
Also, having different license for Java version is quite misleading, given that the downloaded .gem contains also the Java code.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by comparing the nkf repository's licensing files and history with the upstream repository, including commit 2e3a7f70ae71650be6ea38a483f66ce17ca5eb1d. Check Ruby's LEGAL entry and nkf.gemspec around the Java code and license declaration. Done means the provenance and applicable licenses are documented consistently, or the remaining legal question is clearly identified.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, java, ruby
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100