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I won't address the rest, but: > b) I see no evidence that upstream arranged to ship any notice in their binaries, so I don't see how it's reasonable to expect
by fn-mote 1y ago
I won't address the rest, but:
> b) I see no evidence that upstream arranged to ship any notice in their binaries, so I don't see how it's reasonable to expect downstreams to do it
Downstream is not in compliance. The fact that upstream has made that compliance hard/impossible is not relevant to the fact that downstream is infringing.
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- int_19h 1y agoAnd it's not hard at all. You just include a text file with a third party software notice that has all the licenses, alongside the binary. All major companies shipping F/OSS in their products somehow manage to do this just fine (I have personally done so for three different products at two different companies).
- mrguyorama 1y agoIt's so normal and common that your car's infotainment screen has a page for it, and it causes the guy who built a useful open source project to get hate mail, because his email address is listed there.