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From: "Tyler Romeo"
<tylerromeo(a)gmail.com>
Yes, it will
cause an issue. If that extra data is going in every
reply,
multiply its size by our replies per day count, won't you? I don't
know
what that number is, but I'm quite certain it's substantial.
*Every single byte* that goes in a place where it will be included
in every
reply directly affects our 95%ile data transfer, I should think, and
thus
our budget. Bytes are not always free.
True, but if it's legally required it's not like we have an option.
Certainly. But I see no reason to think it's legally required. And
while I, too, only play one on the Internet, I've been doing it since 1983.
And I haven't been surprised all that often.
Mr Villa will come up with a more researched decision, certainly, but I
am relatively certain that a defensible case can be made that minifying is
equivalent to compiling, for the purposes of the license.
And in the unlikely event that's not good enough, the Foundation may well
be able to get a codicil license on the relevant libraries, acknowledging
that it needn't include the license text in on-the-wire minified copies.
My personal opinion, though, is that the proper approach is that the
license be officially interpreted by its issuer to exempt this sort
of minification-caused potential violation, as otherwise, minification
will negatively affect everyone who uses it, many of whom haven't WMF's
budget.
Cheers,
-- jra
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