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> Unfortunately this advice is incompatible with that of most legal departments.

I see this comment pop up every now and then on HN in specific, but I've never personally had a lawyer tell me this; is there any chance anyone could share an actual example of this?



Well in all large orgs legal has rules which licenses are allowed for dependencies generally it's MIT, Apache, BSD and the like


I worked in a large org with 100,000+ employees. You could just use software with pre-approved licences and I am 99% sure AGPL wasn't one of them.


Google is in that camp, and I would bet they don't skimp on lawyers https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...

I didn't spot it previously but they've even gone so far as to treat it like an actual virus https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...

FWIW they have a similar stance about SSPL https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/thirdparty...




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