Re: Updating fast_float from 4.0.0 to 5.0.0 in Rawhide, with a license change

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On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 11:37 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 26/05/2023 18:35, Ben Beasley wrote:
> > Since fast_float is a header-only library, and our guidelines treat
> > these as a kind of static library, directly-dependent packages
> > should—strictly speaking—include fast_float’s SPDX license expression in
> > their own
>
> Only if they use the version built into the source archive. If they're
> using packaged, they don't have to.

No, this information is outdated. Statically linked components must be
taken into consideration, whether bundled or not.
This mostly affects header-only C/C++ libraries and Rust crates (and
theoretically, this would apply to Go and other languages which
statically compile their binaries, as well ...).

Fabio
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