[chimeracoder]

> I'm curious - have you been burned by issues with licenses in the past?

If you count "not being allowed to use $LIBRARY because your company's lawyers won't let you use improperly code", then this is incredibly common.

The alternative scenario - using code released under an ambiguous license and then later getting sued for it - is much less common with large companies simply because good legal teams won't let that happen (see the above scenario).

I'm sure there have been examples of it, though - I know I've heard of those stories myself, even; I just can't think of them at the moment.

Unfortunately, it seems that most FOSS code on Github is not actually properly licensed: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/18/github_licensing_stu...