This is a “heads-up” email about a (non-breaking) major version
update with a (non-disruptive) license change in the fast_float
package in Rawhide.
Once I have a successful scratch build in the PR[1], I plan to update fast_float from 4.0.0 to 5.0.0.
ABI changes are impossible because this is a header-only library; the upstream release notes[2] do not describe any breaking API changes; and I have verified compatibility of all dependent packages via local mock builds. Given all of that, I am not treating this as a breaking update even though the major version number is incremented.
A significant change in this release is the addition of Boost (BSL-1.0) as an additional disjunctive license option. The package license therefore changes from
Apache-2.0 OR MIT
to
Apache-2.0 OR MIT OR BSL-1.0
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. I will take care of the necessary change for c4core[3].
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fast_float/pull-request/5
[2] https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float/releases/tag/v5.0.0
[3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/c4core/pull-request/8