Re:Removed gem breaks Rails ActiveStorage
by Benjamin_Dobell on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:10PM
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> Another way is to eliminate the dependency
That'll resolve the violation for future releases. However, all previous releases are still infringing.
For a violating company who really doesn't want to open source their project, their best bet would probably be to (remove the dependency and) pay damages for previous infringement.
You'd hope damages in a case like this would be small given it went unnoticed for so long. Considering the shared-mime-info project itself is not commercial software, there probably wasn't significant damage to the project or the authors.
That'll resolve the violation for future releases. However, all previous releases are still infringing.
For a violating company who really doesn't want to open source their project, their best bet would probably be to (remove the dependency and) pay damages for previous infringement.
You'd hope damages in a case like this would be small given it went unnoticed for so long. Considering the shared-mime-info project itself is not commercial software, there probably wasn't significant damage to the project or the authors.