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by coldtea 4050 days ago
>Isn't linking a closed source library (Chakra) problematic?

Yeah, because the tech world didn't have enough problems with projects being immature, unreliable, stale 30+ year designs, abandoned, incompatible, not provided by a specific distribution, coflicting, patented and 100 other issues to consider.

It just had to also add 200 legal distinctions behind what you can and you cannot do, and how you can link stuff and under what circumstances.
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magicalist 4050 days ago
If you're asking if software licenses are important, the answer is yes, they're very important.

To the GP, though, I don't immediately see how linking to Chakra in this way would be a license issue. The more important thing is the license information for Node, though, not Chromium: https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/LICENSE (some overlap but quite a bit that doesn't)

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coldtea 4050 days ago
>If you're asking if software licenses are important, the answer is yes, they're very important.

I'm not asking about their importance, I complain about their existince (and need).

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