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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by adastra22 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:16PM (#37423255)
Compliance with MIT/X11 license just requires distributing the license file with the binary. If you infringe, it is trivial and costless to correct.

Copyleft licenses are more troublesome for those who would rather not release source code. GPL is being used as a stand-in for all copyleft licenses.

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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by CameronNemo on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:18PM (#37423285)
It is not costless to correct if you don't know who's code was an input in the first place.
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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by wtallis on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:23PM (#37423358)
It's intractable to preemptively avoid all possible copyright claims, but correcting them after being called out on it only requires adding the license and attribution required by whoever's currently suing you.
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