Re:Monetizing open-source is problematic
by JimDabell on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:56AM
(#27253184)
> CDN is hardcoded into the JS library. Why would you even do that and then shame people?
It’s worth noting that before the fakercloud.com URLs were hard-coded into the library, the library was hard-coding a different service’s S3 URLs (uifaces.co) and only stopped when they became inaccessible:
So it seems a little unfair to complain that Retool are embedding URLs to your CDN when this library was doing the same thing to UI Faces a few months ago.
It’s worth noting that before the fakercloud.com URLs were hard-coded into the library, the library was hard-coding a different service’s S3 URLs (uifaces.co) and only stopped when they became inaccessible:
https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/commit/e45648439ff5dd9adbe...
https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues/1055
So it seems a little unfair to complain that Retool are embedding URLs to your CDN when this library was doing the same thing to UI Faces a few months ago.