# UnicodePlots examples; Plotly licensing

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**Category:** Visualization\
**Created:** [January 4, 2017, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unicodeplots-examples-plotly-licensing/1280 "2017-01-04T10:33:07Z")\
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> [@How to choose a plotting package?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-choose-a-plotting-package/1134/44):
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> A minified version is not a fair way to judge readability or make this assertions

Yes, about readability, I’ve now added the 🙂 I should have put there. However my main point was the GPL (potential) issue:

[https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/free-your-javascript.html](https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/free-your-javascript.html)  
[see:  
“As additional permission under GNU GPL version 3 section 7, you  
may distribute non-source (e.g., minimized or compacted)”

meaning new in GPLv3, and its absense in GPLv2 (and other wording) meaning, considered there binary, ont ok as a source; not allowed to redistribute as such, without “corresponding source”, e.g. the non-minified version). See also e.g. LibreJS.]

> **[Better GPL compliance when using JS minification](https://www.drupal.org/node/1493876)**
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> By minifying code and removing comments; one might argue that the GPL is not being followed to the letter of the law. By providing a comment in the minified JS pointing to the js source file this should solve most potential issues as a link to the...

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