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?

  • Knossos
    70•5 months ago

    You don’t.

    Unless it is publicised or an obvious bug exists in your code and you see the consequences of it in their system.

    • Admiral PatrickEnglish
      43•5 months ago

      My takeaway from that is that I should start putting canary bugs in my code 😆

      • mox
        15•5 months ago

        It’s a time-honored tradition among dictionary publishers.

        • Admiral PatrickEnglish
          11•5 months ago

          I think cartographers also used to put fake things on their maps to detect unauthorized copies.

          • @Ebber
            8•5 months ago

            There are cases where fake places became real since people moved there afterwards