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by tommek4077 543 days ago
Plot twist: Nobody who is in charge should care.

Leave the no to the naysayers.

Ship your app, generate traffic, usage, income. Leave the discussions to other people.

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Do that at $BigCorp and Legal will eat you alive, if not fired.

Long ago I went through the company-approved process to link to SQLite and they had such a long list of caveats and concerns that we just gave up. It gave me a new understanding of how much legal risk a company takes when they use a third-party library, even if it's popular and the license is not copyleft.

Unless you are now involved in a lawsuit that asks for a hypothetical 50% of your income for using a tech very similar to their and they speculate its been stolen and not permitted by their license and even if you know you are going to win/or that it doesn't affect you still have to spend money on the lawyers fighting it.
Commenting on this to mark it in my feed for later reference. Well said!