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For being a "Open Sourcerer's Magic Spell Book", it's depending on a lot of non-open source registries and services...

List of non-open-source services being used and depended on: Github, the npm registry, Gist (by Github), TravisCI, CodeClimate, Snyk, FOSSA and Shields.io




This tracks with the current trend in Open Source, Libraries and Tool-kits are open but Finished Software is not. This is the primary motivation for the opposition of GPL and other copy left licenses in favor of non-copy left so they can insure the "open" code can be locked down in the final consumer product

Sad really that Open Source has diverged so much with Free Software..




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