Projects with bigger problems
Projects with bigger problems
Posted Apr 28, 2026 17:23 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Projects with bigger problems by farnz
Parent article: Dependency-cooldown discussions warm up
> The other way to game it is to vendor and obfuscate your real dependencies; in other words, instead of openly depending on OpenSSL, I vendor it and make some licensing compliant changes to make it "my" library.
And why would anyone buy your library, when OpenSSL is available?
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