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A friendly email should work for most companies, but contacting a lawyer should do the trick. Some simple telemetry can determine what IP addresses, computer na
by 8organicbits 5y ago
A friendly email should work for most companies, but contacting a lawyer should do the trick. Some simple telemetry can determine what IP addresses, computer names, etc are running the software.
Hi legal@example.com, I'm the developer of $product. I noticed you don't have an active license [or support contract]. My records show recent use of $product at your corporate IP address: 1.2.3.4.
You may purchase a Large Company license for $product at this link.
Please let me know when you've addressed this issue.
- sodality2 5y agoNo large company would begin using unlicensed code like that, they have many rules in place to avoid license violations. Which means anyone at the company evaluating it would see the license scheme. Most would probably switch to a different library in order to avoid the hassle of requesting budget to pay for it.
- 8organicbits 5y ago> No large company would begin using unlicensed code like that, they have many rules in place to avoid license violations. I've seen it happen at multiple large companies, even though they have policies. I've seen a lawyer miss a GPL license violation in a license review, the team caught it before a public release. Especially when you have internal only projects or developers who are admin on their company owned dev machines.