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I have seen this first hand at a acquisition. Missing licenses resulted in the entire FE team working in finding missing licenses/find alternative module with p
by reimertz 9y ago
I have seen this first hand at a acquisition. Missing licenses resulted in the entire FE team working in finding missing licenses/find alternative module with proper license or worst case scenario; implement our own solution. This literally took 1 week. Shrink-wrap would have saved us a bunch of $$$.
- quickben 9y agoYes, it takes one to go through that experience once, to fully appreciate the effort. I also look at that one downvote to my post, and can't help but think that somebody is up for a very nasty surprise in his career.
- Gigablah 9y agoYou have to be careful about the type of licenses as well. Happened to me, luckily it was a tiny library and there was an alternative available. See anything with a "cute" license, such as WTFPL? Don't use it for work.
- hedora 9y agoWhat's wrong with WTFPL? I needed some wtfpl code for something, and asked a team of corporate lawyers to evaluate it. They deemed acceptable, and whitelisted it at one of the biggest software companies around.
- Gigablah 9y agoAnother one of the biggest software companies around came to the opposite conclusion :(