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jjgreen on March 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mimemagic gem yank disrupts Rails installations

It seems that a licence change was needed (since the gem included a GPL data file), versions prior to 0.4 were yanked but Rails depends on ~> 0.3.0; A new 0.3.6 with GPL has been released and so a "bundle update mimemagic" should fix this ...

ledbettj on March 24, 2021 [–]

> "bundle update mimemagic" should fix this...

assuming your codebase is ok with an MIT-licensed dependency suddenly becoming a GPL-licensed dependency.

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