what if I accidentally use your code and thus infringe your license? for example, I may hire someone to write code for me and that person may copy-paste stuff from your github without giving the required attributions. what happens then? am I an evil person now?

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Well, you would be responsible for your code and therefore should only hire responsible devs that honor licenses.

My work is almost all under permissive licenses but when I opt for GPL style, I do reserve the right to require derived work to also be open and only strong copyright gives that control.