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That's what the "discovery" phase of a law suit is, yes.

• bink 5y ago
  That makes sense. I was just wondering if these licenses had provisions that would allow bypassing courts where I can imagine this type of violation would be very hard to prove. e.g.: if they were openly using another product with the same or similar license. Everyone always has the right to sue and hope a judge agrees that an audit be performed. But commercial software organizations can do so without a rigorous process (not that that's a good thing).
  • runnerup 5y ago
    I suspect you're onto something here and that if a company did a good job of obfuscating their use of an AGPL backend, they could protect themselves from discovery. Without existing evidence, it seems unlikely to me that a judge wouldnt agree to throwing out the case before discovery with a motion to dismiss. I'd love if a good lawyer could weigh in.