Re:Never use a dependency that you could replace with an aft...
by greyhair on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:33AM
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But that is a completely different topic. Licensing is an issue, yes, but that is part of the upfront decision process.
In this day an age, this many years into open source licensing, if your team is not on top of that from day one, they have failed as a team.
I worked at Bell Labs from the mid 1980s to 2000, and by early 1990s (1992? 1993?) they already had a full internal team dedicated to open source licensing issues, including training and consulting. That was 27 or 28 years ago. Before some of the developers on this thread were even born.
In this day an age, this many years into open source licensing, if your team is not on top of that from day one, they have failed as a team.
I worked at Bell Labs from the mid 1980s to 2000, and by early 1990s (1992? 1993?) they already had a full internal team dedicated to open source licensing issues, including training and consulting. That was 27 or 28 years ago. Before some of the developers on this thread were even born.