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Sorry, I overlooked that. I actually checked the license only to the point whether we can include it without other obligations and then downloaded what was offered as a download on either the web site or github, can't remember. I decided for the minified version because it's smaller. That's the purpose of minification, after all.

It's somewhat strange that they require the license to be reproduced in every copy, but then offer a download without it. But anyway, I'll prepend the license to the next public release.

Thanks for pointing that out!

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> I decided for the minified version because it's smaller. That's the purpose of minification, after all.

Mm... the purpose of minification, when it's not (also) being used for obfuscation purposes, is tied directly to the execution model of Web apps—constraints that don't apply for desktop applications (even if they are implemented in e.g. the same programming language or using the same or a similar runtime).

App makers and browser extension developers who shoehorn all of the (frankly already very bad or at least questionable) "best practices" associated with the tooling that was created to deal with creating/maintaining/delivering SPAs and other browser-based products into applications loaded from disk are just fundamentally not thinking things through.

For a security-sensitive application like this one, where a show of nothing-up-the-sleeve is only a benefit, one should expect there to be _no_ minified blobs in use.




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