We Are Abstracting on the Shoulders of Giants

Re:We Are Abstracting on the Shoulders of Giants by chokma on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @01:17PM (#7811536)

A good way of finding your own giants is trying to comply with all licenses your own software depends on.

When writing a LGPL licensed CMS server, I tried to find all sub-projects to make sure we could distribute the software safely. Sadly, not every framework and plugin does list its own dependencies correctly - often you will find components in the lib/ folder that require specific attribution with the author's name if the software is to be used legally.

http://cinnamon-cms.com/de/cinnamon-server/lizenz-ubersicht

And for a list of Giants and Dwarves:

http://cinnamon-cms.com/de/standard/riesen-und-zwerge

edit: clarification / fix typo

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Re:We Are Abstracting on the Shoulders of Giants by shanselman on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @01:50PM (#7811753)

I love this. Great point. The dependency chain is huge.

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