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Open source Git repo owners with open licenses, how do you know your code is being used by a big corpo? (sh.itjust.works)
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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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[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago

It means, at least in the golang world, that they keep a copy of your source for themselves and use it for builds. They don't pull from the public repo every time they build their stuff, so malicious code could only get in with new versions, but they check for that.

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