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| ▲ | s20n 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| That's how it is done in debian packages. The full text of each license is only mentioned once and given an identifier which is then used to link the license to the relevant copyright statements. For example:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/highlight/-/blob/94ee6559155... |
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| ▲ | throwup238 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The legal department doesn't want to take that chance. |
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| ▲ | phendrenad2 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | Lawyers can make mistakes, but to REALLY mess things up, you need lawyers, plus some engineers that take the lawyers too seriously. | | |
| ▲ | dv_dt 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The worst companies to work for are bad at differentiating risk especially ones that entertain the most remote legal risks. It seems to happen more with legal risks than security or technology risks. | |
| ▲ | cruffle_duffle 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That goes true of basically every hard core expert. They might be wildly smart in their domain… and that is it. |
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| ▲ | Uehreka 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think it might be the case that licenses often include the authors’ names in the “this code is copyright of so-and-so” (as you can see, I Am Not A Lawyer) section, which might be considered part of the text of the license, thereby making it a requirement to include the full license text for each dependency. |
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| ▲ | notpushkin 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | It’s usually done in MIT-like licenses, which are quite short. But I’d argue that replacing it with Copyright (c) 207X Jonathan Fenimore
Licensed MIT, see the license text below
or even Copyright (c) 207X Jonathan Fenimore
SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
should be enough, but IANAL too.--- In longer licenses like GPL or Apache, you are not supposed to change any copyright statement placeholders. For example, there’s this line in the GPL text: Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
But it’s a part of the “How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs” section. You are supposed to copy it into your code and fill it out there instead.--- Or they could just compress the license amalgamation! I think it would be a bit bigger but pretty reasonable, and their lawyers should be happy with this arrangement. |
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| ▲ | gpm 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Are you sure it doesn't*? * When we treat different versions of say, the MIT license, with different names and copyright years inserted, as different licenses. I have to imagine the file would compress extremely well though... I'm more curious why they don't use compression. |
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| ▲ | toast0 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not sure why Apple doesn't offer a compressed filesystem :p it makes writes a bit slower when compression fails, but otherwise the savings in I/O time often makes up for the increased processing on read and write. |
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| ▲ | sneak 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I imagine it does precisely that when gzipped for distribution. |
