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A little off topic from the actual post, but I wish that there was an actual service or program that was a "re-licensing sentry". That is, given some list of op
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y ago
A little off topic from the actual post, but I wish that there was an actual service or program that was a "re-licensing sentry". That is, given some list of open source projects, it would email me if any of the projects changed their license.
Many dependency managers just grab the latest release of an open source project, and you as a software developer may not be aware that one of your open source dependencies has changed their license in a way that affects what you can do with your project.
It seems a lot of projects are starting out as true open source projects and then once they have built up a user base, are changing their license to something else. It would be nice for me to have a better way to monitor this for my dependencies than just checking the front page of Hacker News.