Instructions

Result

/tmp $ go get github.com/zRedShift/mimemagic/v2/cmd/mimemagic
go: go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory.
	'go get' is no longer supported outside a module.
	To build and install a command, use 'go install' with a version,
	like 'go install example.com/cmd@latest'
	For more information, see https://golang.org/doc/go-get-install-deprecation
	or run 'go help get' or 'go help install'.
/tmp [1]$

I'm on go version go1.21.1 darwin/arm64.

go get github.com/zRedShift/mimemagic/v2/cmd/mimemagic

I've historically been the maintainer of shared-mime-info for around 15 years, and cmd/parser/freedesktop.org.xml looks like it's a copy of the database shipped with shared-mime-info, which is released under the GPL, with shared-mime-info's translators work merged in, and the GPL header removed.

The license that you're shipping mimemagic under (MIT) isn't compatible with shared-mime-info's.

There are a number of possibilities to fix this problem:

• change the mimemagic license to be GPL compatible
• parse the XML file that shared-mime-info ships at runtime, and don't ship it in a codebase with an incompatible license

Using a GPL file as a source makes your whole codebase a derived work, making it all GPL, so I think it's pretty important that this problem gets corrected before somebody uses it in a pure MIT codebase, or a closed-source application.

You will also need to re-add the GPL header to the shared-mime-info XML file as a matter of urgency.

makes it easier, in my case to use mimemagic as a drop in replacement for mimetype.

Is there a way to not follow symlink to target file and return "inode/symlink" directly?

I wrote a simple example here, as you can see the mime-type of symlink bar file is the same as source file foo.

It seems in mediatypes.go, the symlink media type has already been supported, How can I use mimemagic APIs to achieve this?

Thanks for your help!

json data like

{
    "key":"value"
}

but Match result is text/plain

RT