Comment by TheAceOfHearts
7 years ago
There's tools [0] to help check the licenses of all your dependencies. I think larger companies build up a whitelist of libraries as they're reviewed and approved.
7 years ago
There's tools [0] to help check the licenses of all your dependencies. I think larger companies build up a whitelist of libraries as they're reviewed and approved.
Yep. When I was at IBM, part of releasing something was a review every of dependency and it's license. The stuff I worked on wasn't allowed to include any GPL code. (Or WTFPL, for that matter, but I think that had more to do with curse words than actual license issues.)
Couldn't you just "relicense" WTFPL code as MIT code (or proprietary code, for that matter) and call it a day?
Haha, probably, but it wasn't a big deal to replace it with something else.