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Open source Git repo owners with open licenses, how do you know your code is being used by a big corpo? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev
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How do people find out or know whether your repo which is having MIT or apache or AGPL license is being used by a corpo and profiting from it and not making the code open source or paying license fees?

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[โ€“] Perhyte@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago (10 children)

For MIT, why do you care? That's perfectly fine and explicitly allowed by the license. Same for Apache, but with a few extra requirements (like keeping a list of changes in the source code and preserving licensing information etc.).

As for how I know big corporations are using my code: the fact that a prominent project (publicly used by several tech giants) took a dependency on one of my tiny (permissively licensed) library packages is probably a clue.

[โ€“] Ogeon@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago

That's definitely part of "the deal" with MIT and Apache. The other end of it is that they shouldn't really expect to get anything more than what the authors are willing to give.

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