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I once worked on a project with 10 years of legacy code that entered into a partnership with IBM. We were required to audit every line of code used in the proj
by everettForth 13y ago
I once worked on a project with 10 years of legacy code that entered into a partnership with IBM.
We were required to audit every line of code used in the project, and state whether we owned the code, or if the code was open source, what license was used. (The bottom line is that IBM's lawyers were afraid we might be using GPL code)
I would love to see how the lawyers respond to code under the "Do I Look Like I Give A Shit" license.
Anyway, for people in this thread pleading to take these things more seriously, it's because of real-life scenarios like I just described.
This is the kind of thing that could hold up a Multi-Million Dollar business deal for weeks while the lawyers figure out what to do about using code with this license.
More likely is that experienced management will prohibit developers from using the code in the first place.