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Open source Git repo owners with open licenses, how do you know your code is being used by a big corpo? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/programming
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How do people find out or know whether your repo which is having MIT or apache or AGPL license is being used by a corpo and profiting from it and not making the code open source or paying license fees?

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (10 children)

For MIT, why do you care? That's perfectly fine and explicitly allowed by the license. Same for Apache, but with a few extra requirements (like keeping a list of changes in the source code and preserving licensing information etc.).

As for how I know big corporations are using my code: the fact that a prominent project (publicly used by several tech giants) took a dependency on one of my tiny (permissively licensed) library packages is probably a clue.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (6 children)

So what you’re saying is you could take down an entire company by introducing a bug?

[–] emptyother 12 points 5 months ago

Or YOU could hack the company by stressing him about bugs and offer your help to fix them.

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