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no one will honor this license commercial users know full well a team of less than ten people can never hope to track down license violators while still doing
by newaccount2023 4y ago
no one will honor this license
commercial users know full well a team of less than ten people can never hope to track down license violators while still doing dev work
- 71a54xd 4y agoIMO, the only way that would be possible is if they buried some kind of telemetry in their code. I don't support that kind of thing, but you could also pass that off to investors as "trying".
- jjeaff 4y agoI don't think most commercial users are in the business of purposefully breaking licensing agreements. Even small startups have to worry about this because it generally comes up in due diligence for VC investment. The risk of a future lawsuit, even if small, generally outweigh the savings.
- monocasa 4y agoThat's a great problem to have for a startup. "We have a ton of use that we can see through these proxy metrics, so the goal of this series c is, in addition to continuing to innovate on a product side, start investing in license auditing of companies that can't meaningfully change to another product quickly" is a pretty great pitch a few years down the line.
- armatav 4y agoUnless you die because of a lack of revenue first.