@pernia @allison @animeirl @mint

> if you think a liscence is gonna stop anyone from doing malicious things with your code,

No, you have to read what I wrote and you have to know how big corporations work.

> or even respecting the terms under which they got the that code,

Businesses don't wanna get sued, they play it safe. It's not going to stop anyone, but at a big company, big enough where you've got corporate counsel, you're not going to have blatant licensing violations. They don't want the suit because they don't want the liability, but not just that: they don't want to *win* the suit, because it sets a precedent that erodes licensing. So as to prevent that, they will have an internal list of acceptable licenses and most companies will fire anyone they catch violating licenses: "Oh, you got your job done a week faster? We shipped a million units, you have fucked us." They'll scramble to patch it out if they can and they will cover it up but they will go out of their way to avoid fucking it up.

> you're relying on the people enforcing the liscence to respect it, in the case of IME.

They picked MINIX3 because of its permissive licensing. That is how it works at places like that. Lawyers don't give a shit about Linux versus MINIX3 or BSD or whatever, they don't know the difference.