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How is it not intentional? To me it seems very clear that someone designed this bot to specifically alter the LICENSE file so that it matches some sort of prede
by Strom 5y ago
How is it not intentional? To me it seems very clear that someone designed this bot to specifically alter the LICENSE file so that it matches some sort of predefind Microsoft file.
Edit: To give a bit more nuance, I would guess that the actual bot changing the LICENSE files is not a mistake, but working as intended. What could, however, be a mistake is thinking that licenses can be legally overwritten. It wouldn't be a "rogue engineer" kind of mistake. Certainly several people at Microsoft have signed off on this.
- colejohnson66 5y agoBecause a bot like this could never used on internal libraries that are about to be open sourced?
- Strom 5y agoI'm sure it could be used, however that would probably be a similar problem. Microsoft has internal libraries with all sorts of licenses. Replacing the actual licenses with a template wouldn't be the correct move there either.
- formerly_proven 5y agohttps://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0ced7598807bad5c6d4d6c https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0... That's not a bot.