> You'll never know if somebody has lifted a bit of code in violation of a license anymore than you would be able to tell if somebody copy-pasted from stack ove

> You'll never know if somebody has lifted a bit of code in violation of a license anymore than you would be able to tell if somebody copy-pasted from stack overflow without attribution in any commercial application It's obvious that you've never endured any sort of deep code analysis for license "problems" because then you would know that it is in fact comically easy to tell if someone did this. It happens all the time. While some detections are false positives, this is in fact why such deep analysis is performed: because getting caught selling a commerical application you don't have the rights to sell can destroy value very rapidly. It halts mergers and acquisitions. It gets products pulled off shelves. It gets people fired.