what's the license that concerns you?

genuinely want to understand the concern

I was trying to add

zed

into a mirror for our CI/CD pipeline and the license review flagged it.

we double checked and CockroachLabs uses Apache 2.0 after the "Change Date". The file was first published in 2017. https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/pkg/util/treeprinter/tree_printer.go#L1-L9 The license describes 4 years after publication, so at this point that file would be Apache 2.0 license: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/licenses/BSL.txt#L45-L49 We understand most tools won't go figure out these nitty-gritty details, and we also understand that even if BSL can be compatible in specific scenarios, it's additional friction that hurts adoption. So we think it's a good idea to avoid importing BSL licensed code 👍🏻

I git cloned zed, then entered the dir and run:

~/go/bin/go-licenses report ./... >/tmp/licenses.csv

To sort by license I run:

sort /tmp/licenses.csv -t ',' -k 3 | column -s, -t

the problem is that there were changes after the re-licensing and you are pulling this new version: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/commits/master/pkg/util/treeprinter/tree_printer.go

You'd basically need to mirror a 4 year old version of the file, right?

There are numerous alternative tree printers that are MIT licensed.