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0 pointstempaccount4201y ago0 comments

Why clean up first? Could be devs pushing back because they're ashamed (unnecessarily) of their code?

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We saw with Winamp how badly it can go (lots of license violations on vendored dependencies):

Cleaning up in this context means figuring out what parts of the code they actually own and removing/replacing the parts they don't.

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0 pointstempaccount4201y ago0 comments

Why clean up first? Could be devs pushing back because they're ashamed (unnecessarily) of their code?

cibyr1y ago

We saw with Winamp how badly it can go (lots of license violations on vendored dependencies):

Cleaning up in this context means figuring out what parts of the code they actually own and removing/replacing the parts they don't.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse