I'm not a lawyer, but sounds reasonable to me. :D
I can't think of anything in our Apache Software License 2.0 that would cause
problems, and you're not infringing on trademark, as far as I can tell.
Thank you for reaching out, let us know if you find any problems with our data,
and enjoy!
Cheers,
Tim
On 2025/04/08 04:02:47 Austin Ziegler wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm the maintainer of the Ruby gem mime-types and its associated data
> gem/repo, mime-types/mime-types-data.
>
> While the vast majority of the data is pulled from the IANA media type
> registry, one thing which has always been a bit ad hoc is extensions. This
> is currently enriched from the Apache httpd MIME list, but I have been
> considering extending the data with the `tika-mimetypes.xml` from tika-core.
>
> I have implemented a parser to integrate these at
> https://github.com/mime-types/mime-types-data/pull/142, but before merging
> it I wanted to raise the question as to whether this would be
> considered fair use by the Tika project. The changes essentially:
>
> 1. Parse the current `tika-mimetypes.xml` from the main branch of Tika on
> GitHub.
> 2. Skip over any `mime-type` record that has attributes (MIME::Types is
> about resolving the primary media types and does not support format or
> version attributes).
> 3. Extracts the `glob` entries for use in the `extensions` field. Globs
> that use `*` in the middle of a filename are excluded, because that's now
> how the Ruby MIME::Types field works (I could add a new `glob` field, but
> that will take a bit more work).
> 4. Updates the `extensions` field for any existing MIME::Type or creates
> new unregistered (not defined in IANA) types for new ones.
>
> -a
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