shadow-maint/shadow is not GNU, and is almost all BSD-licensed
Open
Beginner friendly
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 15
- Forks
- 8
- Avg merge
- 4h 15m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 80
Description
The README.md states that the original shadow-utils is
- a GNU project (goals section)
- GPL-2.0+ (contributing section)
But it does not seem affiliated with GNU at all, and it is almost completely BSD-3, with only a single file (vipw.c) carrying a GPL SPDX header.
It seems that you were so intent on clean-rooming this that you didn't check some basics ;)
Contributor guide
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 with README.md and compare its goals and contributing sections with the repository's COPYING file and the SPDX header in src/vipw.c. Verify the project affiliation and license claims, then update the README so they match the documented facts and confirm the references are accurate.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 82/100