[geschwindner]

No need to be so combative, Jeremy.

I care deeply about licenses, and as a contributor to some (A)GPL licensed works, I’d love for people to follow the license to the tee.

The truth is that stealing open source code does not have the same monetary repercussions as stealing closed source code. Nowhere close to it. You have to acknowledge that there is an enforcement issue, either due to monetary or motivational (Linux) reasons.

Have there been license enforcements? Yes, a small number. But nowhere close to enough to make a team with a deadline think twice. Compared to stealing a competitor’s code, the expected value of the punishment for using some GPL code quietly is a rounding error.