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Re:Show HN: What parts of your code are not original by nunobrito on Saturday February 06, 2016 @08:19AM (#11047654)
Indeed. License compliance is something very secretive, the old-styled management does not really want to hear they are using GPL. When the company gets acquired is a shock discovering otherwise. Would be better to understand what GPL is all about, rather than hiding. Last year we had a company in Germany that the acquisition failed because they were not respecting the copyleft licenses.

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Re:Show HN: What parts of your code are not original by osivertsson on Saturday February 06, 2016 @09:36AM (#11047872)
What makes me really sad is organizations where management sort of understands, but argues things like:

  * we have never cared about this since we started way back and it has worked fine!
  * it will cost us time and money, let's ignore it.
  * how could someone ever find out?
That said, having a tool that can clearly point to problems could be a big help when management changes and someone sympathetic to uncovering and fixing license issues comes in.

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