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XZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbanned (github.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I think if that caught on then companies would call it undue burden to sift through all the dependencies they use to make such small payments.

It is a difficult problem. But on the face of it your suggestion seems very reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Maybe that force them to just donate to every dependency, probably cheaper on their level. And better for project.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

GitHub has a tool built-in to show all dependencies, it's not that hard to write a little script to check the LICENSE files in the repositories. I'm sure one of the biggest companies in the world has the ability to do that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

One of the biggest companies in the world used Copilot to give its users code scraped from GitHub projects without telling them it came from GitHub and that it's under various licenses that need to be followed.

https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/case-updates.html

[–] Lmaydev 2 points 7 months ago

If dual licensing was standard the software that uses things like xz would pay down the line so everything was funded.