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A comment on Show HN: Legalfile – A proposal for software legal terms in a structured way.

Re:Show HN: Legalfile – A proposal for software legal terms ... by mankash666 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @01:10PM (#16515683)
Who's the supposed audience?

Companies don't really care for this, as they'll use their lawyers to vet compatibility, and lawyers rely on the original license's verbiage.

Individuals and smaller companies will still continue to comply/violate terms, as small fish typically face no consequences from violating terms

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Re:Show HN: Legalfile – A proposal for software legal terms ... by Sirikon on Sunday March 04, 2018 @06:53PM (#16517593)
This should be for developers, for creators. A way to ease the task of checking legal compatibilities.

Also, in my opinion, a way to give this to all developers is the commitment of package managers maintainers to include legality checking in the process of installing third-party packages.

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Re:Show HN: Legalfile – A proposal for software legal terms ... by pepellou on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:19AM (#16519783)
I think we developers might comply/violate terms because we face no consequences, but mostly because we're not aware when we're violating terms.
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