How do people find out or know whether your repo which is having MIT or apache or AGPL license is being used by a corpo and profiting from it and not making the code open source or paying license fees?

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My takeaway from that is that I should start putting canary bugs in my code 😆

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It’s a time-honored tradition among dictionary publishers.

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I think cartographers also used to put fake things on their maps to detect unauthorized copies.

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There are cases where fake places became real since people moved there afterwards

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Doesn’t really matter if you’re not positioned to be able to defend your license in court.

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Some people really do :D

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