Dave AndersonMay 18, 2024

How to tell your OSS is ridiculously popular: people aren't 100% sure they _didn't_ embed it, and tack on the software equivalent of "packaged in a facility where peanuts were also present" to the license list.

This watch contains software, so statistically probably contains at least traces of curl.

Show threadDave AndersonMay 18, 2024
Boring joke deflator: afaict it's just Garmin's standard wording so that they can splat in all licenses to everything involved in any of their products, rather than have to generate license compliance text specific to individual firmware builds. But also, lol
Show threadevanaMay 18, 2024
@danderson y'know, that worries me more than "may contain curl". You made the thing... you should know if there's curl in there or not!
Show threadAnkit Pati
@evana @danderson The “yous” that made the thing—engineers—know. The “yous” that decreed the text be put in there—lawyers—don’t.
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Show threadStephan SchulzMay 19, 2024
@ankitpati @evana @danderson You'd hope the first part of the statement is true, but in general I doubt it...