Comment by TZubiri

There's a reason why big corps don't use copyleft software, if it were as simple as this they would be violating copyleft licenses left and right.

They lose claim to intellectual property rights over their own technology, even the risk (certainty) of a lawsuit over this is enough to kill the company.

And we are not talking about the company being sued for a breach of license. We are talking about this being used in any kind of dispute in court, client didn't pay? They can just allege that whatever they bought wasn't even the property of the startup, so they had no righ to sell it to them, boom good luck collecting your contract payments.

If you are a big company with a lot of business, sure you move on. But a company that is a couple of months old with this liability already? It's doomed.

Denormalize incompetence again.