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by TeMPOraL 69 days ago
We're talking about SaaS businesses anyway. Open Source doesn't really matter there - you never actually know what's running on their servers.
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Unless this is AGPL.
Nope. You can never verify they run the same code from their repo. You cannot physically access their system after all.
Illegal actions are often hard to prove, and yet laws somehow work in general. Same here with obeying the license.