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nitwit005last Friday at 10:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Yep, and honestly it's going to come up with things other than lawsuits.

I've worked at a company that was asked as part of a merger to scan for code copied from open source. That ended up being a major issue for the merger. People had copied various C headers around in odd places, and indeed stolen an odd bit of telnet code. We had to go clean it up.


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LtWorfyesterday at 10:49 AM

Headers are normally fine. GPL license recognises that you might need them to read binary files.