Giters

jcrist / msgspec

A fast serialization and validation library, with builtin support for JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML

Home Page:https://jcristharif.com/msgspec/

Geek Repo:Geek Repo

Github PK Tool:Github PK Tool

License discrepancy

sennalen opened this issue · comments

commented

The github sidebar says it's under BSD 3, but the LICENSE file says "All rights reserved"

commented

That's part of the standard license text (see e.g. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD#New_BSD_(no_advertising,_3_clause)). I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is you should read licenses as "the author retains all rights, except the rights enumerated below". From this post here it sounds like the "All rights reserved" used to be required language to imply all unstated rights were reserved by the owner, but in modern copyright law that's just implicit so the line is kind of redundant now.

In summary:

  • Yes, msgspec is BSD 3 licensed.
  • That line is part of (at least some versions) of the standard BSD 3 license text. I just copy-pasted it when I created the repo years ago.
  • It seems like that line is redundant in modern times, but it's also harmless.