Open source Git repo owners with open licenses, how do you know your code is being used by a big corpo? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev

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How do people find out or know whether your repo which is having MIT or apache or AGPL license is being used by a corpo and profiting from it and not making the code open source or paying license fees?

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[-] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

keeping a list of changes in the source code

Source?

[-] Perhyte@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I may have slightly misremembered the license text (subsection 4c):

You must cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files;

So I guess technically you only need to indicate that you have changed the files, not what you've changed in them. I suppose that's less burdensome because it only needs to be done once per file at most.

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