• paraphrand@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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