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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1425633" data-attributes="member: 633">These open licenses are free to use, but that doesn't mean that they are easy to use. Noone forces you to hire a lawyer, but if you don't, you shouldn't be surprised when you find you've made a mistake - and by then, it's too late. I am sure that there are hundreds of small developers who think they're using the GPL right and are in fact infringing. If SCO came to them instead of heading to IBM, they would be toast. Of course, being a small fish is the best defense. Anyway, it's not a matter of reading comprehension; reading legalese with full understanding is simply damn hard and prone to errors unless you're trained.</blockquote>