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?

  • Knossos
    70•3 months ago

    You don’t.

    Unless it is publicised or an obvious bug exists in your code and you see the consequences of it in their system.

    • Admiral PatrickEnglish
      43•3 months ago

      My takeaway from that is that I should start putting canary bugs in my code 😆

      • mox
        15•3 months ago

        It’s a time-honored tradition among dictionary publishers.

        • Admiral PatrickEnglish
          11•3 months ago

          I think cartographers also used to put fake things on their maps to detect unauthorized copies.

      • @refalo
        7•3 months ago

        Doesn’t really matter if you’re not positioned to be able to defend your license in court.