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Re:Harmony Link will no longer work after March 2018 by pc86 on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @09:51AM (#15652931)
What if one license on one dependency prohibits it from being open sourced?

"Just open source it!" is a knee-jerk reaction with little bearing on the practical realities.

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Re:Harmony Link will no longer work after March 2018 by pavel_lishin on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:34AM (#15653418)
There's no way to make this sound non-insulting to the person I originally responded to, but one of my most-hated pet peeves is the "it's easy, just <8 year old's solution to a problem>" comment.

"Why don't we just make bad things illegal?"

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Re:Harmony Link will no longer work after March 2018 by lurker12390879 on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:25AM (#15653926)
"Source available" - ie licensed for end users to build and use, vs "open source" would be a good middle ground for such cases.
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Re:Harmony Link will no longer work after March 2018 by pavel_lishin on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:51AM (#15654182)
Ok; what if a dependency forbids that?
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Re:Harmony Link will no longer work after March 2018 by lurker12390879 on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:42PM (#15698914)
Write an open source alternative or put the deps under the same license.
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