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So you're happy to build your commercial product upon the free works of hundreds of FOSS developers, but only if you can't be arsed to give them attribution? C
by gmfawcett 5y ago
So you're happy to build your commercial product upon the free works of hundreds of FOSS developers, but only if you can't be arsed to give them attribution? Cry me a river! An enterprise has a responsibility to manage its licenses. Complaining that it's not fun is just childish.
- idealmedtech 5y agoI think also it becomes an issue where you have to preclude a source file with ~10+ copies of the same license for each dependencies. It's the way you have to satisfy the attribution requirement (eg "must include this text," rather than "must include a link to this text somewhere in the source tree") that presents the issue. It's part of why, as I said in the original comment, lots of big shops do _everything_ in house, even when there's a higher quality open source alternative. They simply don't use projects with attribution requirements that are too strict.