I never take this stuff seriously, but then I never really worked, or ever had the desire to work, on anything this proprietary, or in a company this bureaucratic. When my first employer was acquired by a giant corporation and I started seeing it transform into this monstrosity, I quit.

The problem can be when something untoward happens with a dependency, or a buried dependency, like a security breach, or a licensing issue.

Lawyers will generally chew up the food chain, and applications that use dependencies can get caught in the blast radius.

That can happen with big shops, or small shops.

Anyway, I've never in my life consulted a lawyer about my or someone else's code. The whole idea feels weird.

I will bet you don’t live in the US.

Around here, lawyers are a dime a dozen.

I don't. I'm Russian.