Man you just harshed the vibe of this free spirited Netflix love-in thread.

Don't mind me then. I think early Netflix' management philosophy -- as far as I know about it from the outside -- was exemplary. I strongly recommend No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention.

I suppose that's a tangible benefit to hiring well- you don't have to ask your team basic questions like these. Presumably the engineer well knows to check licenses.

Why would someone go to the effort of republishing dependencies?

Can you have a gplv3 dependency and licence your project under bsd

Sort of. You can always license your IP (code) how you want. However if you distribute the GPL code together with your product you can’t say the whole bundle is BSD. (I understand you can dynamically link to GPL libraries distributed separately if you want that, but I’m not 100% sure where bundling .so/.DLL files leaves you).