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		magicalist on May 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Temporary fork enables Node.js to optionally use t... 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)

coldtea on May 12, 2015 [–]

>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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