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@joshka joshka commented Apr 2, 2024

This removes the copyright year in all the LICENSE files.
It also uses the MIT license text with the wrapping from
https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/ rather than the more narrow
wrapped text that was previously used, and adds the explicit "MIT
License" header to each file to make this more obvious.

Motivation

When I opened the license file, I was unsure if this was MIT licensed or another custom license due to the lack of header and non-standard formatting.

Solution

Use a more standard formatted license, and ensure the header states this is an MIT License.

This updates the license year to 2024 in all the LICENSE files.
It also uses the MIT license text with the wrapping from
https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/ rather than the more narrow
wrapped text that was previously used, and adds the explicit "MIT
License" header to each file to make this more obvious.
@Darksonn Darksonn added the A-readme Area: Documentation that isn't part of any crate such as README.md or CONTRIBUTING.md label Apr 2, 2024
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Darksonn commented Apr 2, 2024

We may want to just drop the year ...

Thoughts @carllerche ?

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joshka commented Apr 2, 2024

I think that's fine in the US (IANAL however), but perhaps not everywhere?

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Darksonn commented Apr 2, 2024

The Rust project itself already did the same.

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joshka commented Apr 3, 2024

The Rust project itself already did the same.

That's good enough rationale for me. Will remove.

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joshka commented Apr 9, 2024

See also tokio-rs/tracing#2922

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joshka commented May 25, 2024

ping @taiki-e

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Thank you.

@Darksonn Darksonn enabled auto-merge (squash) May 26, 2024 09:19
@Darksonn Darksonn merged commit 3a6fdc0 into tokio-rs:master May 26, 2024
@joshka joshka deleted the mit-license branch May 26, 2024 09:34
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