[DOCS-11719] GitHub doesn't recognize MongoDB license Created: 17/May/18  Updated: 30/Oct/23

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: Server
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Server_Docs_20231030

Type: Bug Priority: Minor - P4
Reporter: Andrea Kao Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Do Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified

Participants:
Days since reply: 1 year, 14 weeks, 2 days ago
Epic Link: DOCSP-1769

 Description   

Hello!

GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license type. It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it can unambiguously identify the license. Licensee is currently unable to recognize MongoDB's license type.

The README indicates that:

Most MongoDB source files (src/mongo folder and below) are made available under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPLv3).

A simple fix (to address the Licensee issue) would rename the GNU-AGPL-3.0.txt file to LICENSE. However, we will also need to address the presence of the APACHE-2.0.txt, perhaps by adding a note to the README.

For comparison purposes, here is the output that I get when I run Licensee locally on MongoDB's remote repo:

$ licensee detect https://github.com/mongodb/mongo
License:  None

And here is the output that I get when I run Licensee on the update-branch of my local MongoDB clone (in which I have renamed GNU-AGPL-3.0.txt to LICENSE):

licensee detect ../mongo/
License:        GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Matched files:  LICENSE
LICENSE:
  Content hash:  3871d49b026a34e4784927d8171a27319f150325
  Attribution:   Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
  Confidence:    100.00%
  Matcher:       Licensee::Matchers::Exact
  License:       GNU Affero General Public License v3.0



 Comments   
Comment by Education Bot [ 31/Oct/22 ]

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Comment by Andrea Kao [ 18/May/18 ]

Hi Steve, thanks for taking a look! I'll wait to hear what your legal department has to say.

Comment by Steve Renaker (Inactive) [ 18/May/18 ]

Hi Kao, thanks for the heads-up. I'm checking with the legal department to see what we can do about the license configuration. 

Best regards,

  • Steve
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