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There will be a VSCode extension for that.

• croes 5y ago
  Same trust issue
  • atatatat 5y ago
    It's people for your lawyers to blame, all the way down! /s
    • croes 5y ago
      It's the same problem s with self driving cars, you gets sued. The company that provides the service/car or the the programmer/driver? I think the latter.
• TheDong 5y ago
  It's impossible to automate checking for code license violations. If you and I write the exact same 10 lines of code, we both have independent and valid copyrights to it. Unlike patents, independent derivation of the same code _is_ a defense for copyright. If I write 10 lines of code, publish it as GPL (but don't sign a CLA / am not assigning it to an employer), and then re-use it in an MIT codebase, I can do that because I retained copyright, and as the copyright holder I can offer the code under multiple incompatible licenses. There's no way for a machine to detect independent derivation vs copying, no way for the machine to know who the original copyright holder was in all cases, and whether I have permission from them to use it under another license (i.e. if I email the copyright holder and they say 'yeah, sure, use it under non-gpl', it suddenly becomes legal again)... It's not a problem computers can solve 100% correctly.
  • dr_kiszonka 5y ago
    I should have added /s to highlight that I was being sarcastic. Sorry.