this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
15 points (100.0% liked)

Legal Advice

233 readers
5 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Coke
15
Is Reddit violating open-source software licenses? (self.legaladvice)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by poopsmith to c/legaladvice
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I was curious and noticed that Reddit uses a bunch of open source (MIT, BSD 3 clause, Apache 2.0, etc) licensed javascript libraries. I looked around both on the website and in the minified source and did not notice the license being retained. I am just curious if Reddit is violating the license terms by not showing these licenses.

This answer on SE implies it might be: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9258/how-does-javascript-minification-process-comply-with-requirements-of-opensource

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It would seem to indicate that, and perhaps Reddit does have it, buried in a long document somewhere.

Note that I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.