Maintaining open-source code is a vital but stressful job. Despite that, a recent Tidelift survey found that almost half of code maintainers aren't paid at all.
To be honest, the “many” might be wrong. I also only really know of Google and the company that I work at, which is a larger non-IT company.
I sort of just assume that it would be common, because in these larger companies no one cares enough about individual IT projects to generally accept the risk of a license violation.
It’s also just a pain in the ass for such a larger company to keep track of all the different licenses that end up in one product, so completely banning the most dangerous licenses may simply be a sane business decision.
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Yep, and as an added bonus, many companies react very allergic to the AGPL. As in, use of code under AGPL may very well be prohibited.
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To be honest, the “many” might be wrong. I also only really know of Google and the company that I work at, which is a larger non-IT company.
I sort of just assume that it would be common, because in these larger companies no one cares enough about individual IT projects to generally accept the risk of a license violation.
It’s also just a pain in the ass for such a larger company to keep track of all the different licenses that end up in one product, so completely banning the most dangerous licenses may simply be a sane business decision.