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TheDongtoday at 4:40 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm not complaining about the license, I'm complaining about the library size.

Something that is too small to be considered creative should be a documented example you copy and adopt into your app, not a dependency.

The only exceptions to this are things like "A dependency that contains all unicode planes and categorizes characters", which isn't creative, but is useful and too large to copy-paste, and also updates over time.

Or the timezone database file, another case of something that should be "public domain" knowledge (uncopyrightable), but makes sense as a dependency.

This is not that sort of thing.


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croemertoday at 10:39 AM

You can't copy paste all the localizations for example. Go make a copy-pasteable version if it's so easy.