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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€“] Knossos 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My takeaway from that is that I should start putting canary bugs in my code ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

There are cases where fake places became real since people moved there afterwards

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] Knossos 4 points 1 week ago

Some people really do :D