[reimertz]

I have seen this first hand at a acquisition. Missing licenses resulted in the entire FE team working in finding missing licenses/find alternative module with proper license or worst case scenario; implement our own solution. This literally took 1 week. Shrink-wrap would have saved us a bunch of $$$.

[Gigablah]

You have to be careful about the type of licenses as well. Happened to me, luckily it was a tiny library and there was an alternative available.

See anything with a "cute" license, such as WTFPL? Don't use it for work.

[hedora]

What's wrong with WTFPL?

I needed some wtfpl code for something, and asked a team of corporate lawyers to evaluate it.

They deemed acceptable, and whitelisted it at one of the biggest software companies around.

[Gigablah]

Another one of the biggest software companies around came to the opposite conclusion :(

[quickben]

Yes, it takes one to go through that experience once, to fully appreciate the effort. I also look at that one downvote to my post, and can't help but think that somebody is up for a very nasty surprise in his career.