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Code under the 2-clause-BSD license is not documented as a compatible license for the Rust runtime #62620
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The 2-clause-BSD license is not documented in the tidy script as being a compatible license for the rust runtime dependencies. We used to ship BSD licensed code as part of libstd until recently: 0b85b64#diff-4131508972c86fdd799a5f7d41fdd323 and we shipped jemalloc for a long time as part of the runtime on many targets.
We still do ship code with the MPL2.0 license in some targets, see: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/tools/tidy/src/deps.rs#L51
The deps check of the tidy script should be better documented to explain what's allowed and what isn't.
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Mark-Simulacrum commentedon Jul 17, 2019
We discussed this a bit today and concluded that we don't need the SGX dependencies to be appropriately licensed (they're somewhat "third party") so I'm closing this issue.
gnzlbg commentedon Jul 17, 2019
So does that mean that it is ok to add third party libraries to the runtime under this license?
If so the documentation comment in the tidy script should be updated.
Mark-Simulacrum commentedon Jul 17, 2019
Not in general. In this case, it's specifically for SGX so that's why we're not concerned about it.
gnzlbg commentedon Jul 17, 2019