Your Rust source code & software isn't licensed to the public

[fmease]

Hello there, I'm a member of the rustdoc team.

I was trying to create minimal reproducer (MCVE) for issue rust-lang/rust#136778 which @Jazzpirate reported back in February. I'm more than certain that my in-progress PR rust-lang/rust#149019 will fix the reported issue. Such an MCVE could then be turned into a regression test¹ if I deem it useful enough.

However, I couldn't find any license for the Rust source code in this repository: Neither did I notice any LICENSE file, nor any mention of a license in the README, nor any license file headers. I am not a lawyer but if I understand correctly, consequently, [@]Jazzpirate and [@]jfschaefer hold exclusive copyright (it's even "mutually exclusive" IINM) and therefore I'm not allowed to use & modify (& share) the software (thanks to GH's ToS, I am at least allowed to view (and fork) it). Sources: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/licensing-a-repository and https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/.

So strictly speaking I'm neither allowed to use your software like compiling it to see if I can reproduce the issue (more specifically whatever the latest commit was on 2025-02-09), nor can I modify the Rust source code in order to minimize it.

It's possible that I'm misunderstanding some of this or that this specific scenario / action would not represent a copyright violation, however I must interpret it as conservatively as possible to avoid any sort of problems.

It would be great if you could choose a license so I can build & minimize your code. Many thanks in advance!

Alternatively, you'd have to wait for rust-lang/rust#149019 to get merged (or build that branch yourself), so we can all get to know whether my PR will have fixed it. Frankly, I don't even know if adding a license would grant me the right to use, modify & share older versions of your software. Alas, so many uncertainties!

Footnotes

1. Simplified to such a degree that it becomes "trivial" and no longer falls under copyright law or alternatively replaced with a reproducer written from scratch that bears no connection to your code. ↩

[fmease]

The only licenses I could find were https://github.com/FlexiFormal/FLAMS/blob/main/ts/vscode/LICENSE and https://github.com/FlexiFormal/FLAMS/blob/main/ts/editor/src/languages/syntax/markdown-latex-combined-license.txt which only concern the ts/ directory but not the Rust source code & software (like source/ & Cargo.toml).

[Jazzpirate]

Oh, I apologize, I will add a LICENSE file as soon as possible (pending some research). In the meantime, if that solves the problem, I gladly grant you the right to use the code for any non-commercial purposes you deem fit.

[Jazzpirate]

GPL3 license file pushed