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Re:Project includes a dependancy that has a license that for... by ayewo on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:05PM (#28267271)
On the Internet, unless you sprinkle your words with emoticons, it is hard to convey irony or amusement using text alone.

You absolutely have the power to end the controversy by switching to a more mainstream license then adding a clear disclaimer like “use at your own risk”.

GitHub currently lists 465 projects that depend on your library, which means more than a handful of devs find it useful.

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Re:Project includes a dependancy that has a license that for... by ivegotnoaccount on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:47PM (#28267723)
I'm all for FOSS, but I fail to see how saying something like "There would be no problem if you accepted to release it with a less restrictive license" differs from saying that to a GPL library developer because proprietary code was found using it. Why should the first be considered "a controversy" but not the second ?
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