Pandoc provided binaries carry CC-BY-SA licence

[sshedi]

Hi All,

I see that pandoc binaries provided by https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/3.7.0.2/pandoc-3.7.0.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz contains cc-by-sa license strings.

strings /usr/bin/pandoc | grep -i cc-by-sa
CC-BY-SA-4.0
CC-BY-SA-2.5
CC-BY-SA-2.1-JP
CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE
CC-BY-SA-3.0
CC-BY-SA-2.0
CC-BY-SA-1.0
CC-BY-SA-3.0-AT
CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK
CC-BY-SA-1.0
CC-BY-SA-2.0
CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK
CC-BY-SA-2.1-JP
CC-BY-SA-2.5
CC-BY-SA-3.0
CC-BY-SA-3.0-AT
CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE
CC-BY-SA-4.0

I have the following questions on this:

1. Is pandoc really using these licences?
2. Please share the source code corresponding to these license usages, I am not able to find the same in pandoc git repo.
3. Is it feasible to ship a pandoc binary without cc-by-sa license constraint? Or steps to do the same for consumers.

Thanks.

[tarleb]

What you are seeing is the list of known Open Source licenses defined in https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/master/Cabal-syntax/src/Distribution/SPDX/LicenseId.hs. I'm not sure why that's compiled into pandoc, but I'm very certain that a list like that one is in there.

So no, these aren't used.

[sshedi]

Thank you for the prompt response. Appreciate it.