in programming languages like Javascript where imports are essentially dynamic links, i think it makes no sense. just use the M·P·L, it’s cleaner and more straightforward and the added virality of the G·P·L isn’t actually useful in most cases.
when writing statically linked C code: yeah okay, i get why you might want to “study the whole program”
i don’t want to know what code the computer would write to do the thing i just did but i have absolute certainty it would be wrong
« There's also some research from 2010 into the maximum URL length that search engines will crawl and index. They found the limit was 2047 chars, which appears allied to the sitemap protocol spec. However, they also found the Google SERP tool wouldn't cope with URLs longer than 1855 chars. » easy hack to keep search engines at bay
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