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Thomas BrandThe license file for Slack, an electron app, for Mac is 15,190,831 bytes (15.2 MB on disk) in size and 272,516 lines in length.
Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻@Eggfreckles How times is that file duplicated on your SSD? How much space in the world of storage is that file taking up?
JdeBPIt's also licences, plural; extraordinarily repetitive (multiple copies of the same licences — GPL, LGPL, Apache, and others — over and over); and machine-generated with a python script apparently from embedded SPDX information.
If Google had actually addressed the Licence Hell instead of writing a simplistic Python script that robotically generates copies of things over and over and over and over, LICENCES.chromium would not be nearly as long.
https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/tools/licenses/licenses.py
Debian's machine-readable copyright file format attempts to avoid licence hell with many-to-1 cross-references to the actual licence texts.
#CopyrightLicences #Python #BSDLIcenceHell #Debian #CopyrightLicenceHell #Chromium #Electron
Zło To 🏴☠️ ᵗʰʳᵉᵉᶠᶦᵈᵈʸ@Eggfreckles Yes, I have read and accepted the license
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