FOSS In A Startup

As a conscious user of FOSS, I wanted to make sure that all software we use - allows us to do so.
Thus, we limited ourselves to libraries with licenses such as the LGPL (and then we made sure to dynamically-link with them), BSD, X11 and similar.
It is easy to be tempted to use some GPL library in a manner that is not allowed - one should make sure to read the licenses and develop awareness to various implications (e.g. what constitutes "derived work").
In doing this, my best guide was "prior art" - if I knew that some software has a license that is considered "understood", or if it is being used by large companies (which employ good lawyers especially for these purposes) - I can generally trust them.
More on this - in our epilog...

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