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by b112 1959 days ago
If people are downloading the source, and executing that code, eg as parent said "frontend", then yes, it's on their computer. It's not server side, such as with PH, or python or backend js.

However, the license doesn't have to appear on the website portion specifically highlighted for human viewing. It merely needs to exist, say, at the top of every javascript file.

Or a link to where the text form of the license is.

Just because it's inconvenient, and just because people are ignoring it, doesn't mean it's being done as it should be...

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My point is that if you install the code through a dependency of a dependency it should be leaving license notices entirely intact, fulfilling the license.

Of course javascript optimizers and the like might throw a wrench in the works these days, but that's a pretty recent and specific problem.