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Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months

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Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months

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Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

[issue]: Remove BLOBs from the source tree · Issue #2795 · ventoy/Ventoy

What happened? Due to the recent XZ-Utils drama I checked the code and I'm appalled. There are more BLOBS than source code. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f8946...

I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

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From what others have said: The blobs violate GPL because they are taken from other FOSS project but the changes Ventoy makes are not viewable.

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