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Your clients might be performing due diligence and ask you for copies of your licenses. Especially if they're in a jurisdiction that's more litigious than others
I’ve worked for studios, been freelancing for two decades. Not once have I, or have even heard of any client requesting proof of software lol. Moreover, there isn’t any legal impact to the client regardless. Nor is the onus on the client to ever prove such a fact.
This is 100% made up BS.
We have different experiences, clearly.
It might be possible I'm not lying, and we just work in different industries maybe?
I know someone who contracted for the government and it somehow became obvious during a presentation that they had cracks on their personal laptop.
Their contract was immediately paused until they could provide provenance for all software they had on all their computing devices.
Sounds like that was more about stupidity than piracy.
It also disproves your original statements. Most clients won’t care in some verticals. Others conduct regular audits of themselves and all their contractors.
Most clients aren't the fucking government either.
You gotta go back and look at the definition of “proof” bro.