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I Don't Give a Shit About Licensing (rdegges.com)
6 points by craigkerstiens on July 16, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



So companies sell fortune 500 companies pieces of software that, for millions of dollars, scan all deps and recursive deps right on your CI server. They fail the build if a rule trips.

Kind of dumb, but accidently including GPL code in your codebase can be a billion dollar mistake.

If you have no assets who cares. If you have a billion dollar company you should care.




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