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thrower123
on May 11, 2021
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Babel is used by millions, so why are we running o...
What exactly would the benefit of licencing a tool like Babel under GPL be? It would be completely moot. Using a GPL transpiler isn't going to confer GPL virally onto the code that you run through it.
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on May 11, 2021
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It would mean big greedy companies with skittish legal departments would be forbidden from using it without paying for a commercial license.
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