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9 hours agoThis.
From the perspective of software preservation, we need this. Sometimes we won’t have the source, and just need it to work while also getting security updates.
From the perspective of software delivery: read up on JangaFX’s recent article about this topic and the problems they run into delivering software in the present
I work in a company that deals with both commercial and government (military) software. The government is becoming more and more fixated on the software supply chain, or sw dependencies so to speak.
Existing dependencies are largely getting a pass for now, but with each new one I need to give a justification for. This includes the license of that software. I can’t use GPL at work.