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I have read a good theory for this elsewhere: the company has a spreadsheet of "partners" somewhere that legal and accounting demands gets updated. It starts as
by progbits 5y ago
I have read a good theory for this elsewhere: the company has a spreadsheet of "partners" somewhere that legal and accounting demands gets updated. It starts as companies which you pay but then someone insists developers add all the open source copyright owners.
Now someone took this spreadsheet with zero understanding of what curl/"Haxx Team" is and just emailed them a template.
Not giving excuses, clearly they are incompetent. But it is not some demand of service from freeloaders.
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- bravetraveler 5y agoYea, sounds like something compiled during an audit (or preparation for one) and now used as a stand in dependency matrix by someone down the line
- zamadatix 5y agoIn my mind more likely a bit in reverse for the first part, a pre-existing list of 3rd party dependencies in use (which already includes open source dependencies from the get go) is acquired by someone auditing risk and the rest is the same from there. Not only one less step but one less opportunity for anyone to catch on or explain that these dependencies are special.
- kadoban 5y ago> Not giving excuses, clearly they are incompetent. But it is not some demand of service from freeloaders. I mean it definitely _is_ a demand of service from freeloaders, it just may not be intended as such.