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Maintainer of Rust crate 'dirs-sys' intentionally poisons dependents with MPL
- rustman123 3y agoThey intentionally added a copyleft-licensed library (options-ext) written by himself to poison the supply chain via `dirs-sys`. (Commit: https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-sys-rs/commit/e169da7af901eb621e5d244efe960f4da8ed150d#r109131407 https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-sys-rs/commit/e169da7af901e...) The dependency adds nothing of value and can trivially be removed. (https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-sys-rs/pull/22/files https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-sys-rs/pull/22/files) When asked about it, they claim to prefer MPL and that the current license was an accident they 'may or may not correct'. Popular dependents include - cross (https://crates.io/crates/cross https://crates.io/crates/cross) - terminfo (https://crates.io/crates/terminfo https://crates.io/crates/terminfo)
- cpburns2009 3y agoMPL 2.0 is not a "viral" license like the GPL. It is cross compatible with both Apache 2.0 and MIT. The knee jerk reaction to drop dirs-sys-rs over a non-existent licensing issue makes no sense.