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moral of the story is, know you licences. Adhere to the license terms. Seek out projects with more permissive licenses if you plan to do closed source.

It is simple to work around licence issues with your project. You just have to put in the work. Know that your design may have to factor in extra time because you can't use lib XYZ because you have to write your own library to do the same thing. If using lib XYZ will save a bunch of time, then know that you will have to adhere to lib XYZ license. Maybe writing a wrapper application that you opensource, and your closed source application interfaces with might be a design consideration.

In the end, it's your project, your call. Just know when you make a decision you weigh the pro's and con's of going forth with that decision.




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