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on Thursday March 25 2021, @10:57AM
from the check-for-dependencies-of-dependencies dept.
from the check-for-dependencies-of-dependencies dept.
A 15 year old XML file created a stir in the Ruby on Rails world today as it was discovered that freedesktop.org.xml which is GPL 2 licensed was included improperly in the mimemagic project which was MIT licensed. The author accepted this notification as valid, pulled prior versions, and switched licenses but as this was a dependency of Rails it promptly got the attention of programmers worldwide that rely on the Rails gem for their applications.
Since Rails itself is MIT licensed this makes for a difficult day of sorting out licensing options for many people.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 25 2021, @02:14PM (1 child)
If the morons used proper languages instead of stitching together bits and pieces of other people's work that they don't control, this wouldn't have been a story.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 25 2021, @03:01PM
What you see is the result of allowing large numbers of people to enter the computer programming field. In any large population, the bell curve applies. Most people are going to be only as good as the average Joe off the street.