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skybrianlast Friday at 6:17 PM1 replyview on HN

This varies. The lawyers for risk-adverse companies will make sure they follow the licenses. There are auditing tools to make sure you're not pulling in code you shouldn't. An example is Google's go-licenses command [1].

But you can be sure that even the risk-adverse companies are going to go by what the license says, rather than "community norms."

Other companies are more careless.

[1] https://github.com/google/go-licenses


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jama211yesterday at 3:20 AM

It’s a fair point that ai training makes enforcing licences more difficult than other situations. My point is that licence issues like this this aren’t really a technology issue it’s a company greed/legal issue because it’s always been the case.