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or... read the license and make sure you can comply with it. And if you don't know, or are unsure, ask for help.

it's absurd to me that you'd need to put every library through compliance even if it has very straight forward OSS licenses.

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In my experience, it’s impossible to assemble a group of 1000 programmers who are consistently able to read a license and reason correctly about whether the firm can follow it.

Do you really think everyone hired as a coder has enough intellectual property knowledge to understand all the complexities of all the various open source licenses in every potential usage?

Nope. That's why I said if you're unsure or don't know, ask.

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