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Is this less true for commercial licenses, though? If someone's going to violate your licensing terms, they don't really care which license they violate, and i
by abeyer 5y ago
Is this less true for commercial licenses, though?
If someone's going to violate your licensing terms, they don't really care which license they violate, and it's not like it's hard to find pirated software.
- squeaky-clean 5y agoIt's very hard to find pirated source code though.
- abeyer 5y agoTrue in many cases, but I suspect the ones violating the license are more interested in getting free benefit of the software than they are in the philosophy of making source available.
- yellowapple 5y agoIt's almost trivial to create it yourself for anything written in C# or another .NET language. ILSpy and similar tools have existed for quite some time.
- lolinder 5y agoIf a company has to go onto a pirate website to get a copy, that's going to throw up red flags in all but truly corrupt organizations. If, on the other hand, a piece of software can be downloaded directly off the company's website, it's pretty easy to gloss over the fine print that says "if you comply with terms X, Y, and Z".