> I'd have to a hire a lawyer and disclose it to my investors to be cleared up
That seems extremely weird. Normal startups do nothing of the kind; do you have extremely weird investors?
> My investors were very specific about software licenses - we aren't allowed to use GPLv4 or AGPL at all.
Ah, there we go. First off, there's no such thing as GPLv4. Second of all, you do realise that avoiding even the AGPL puts you in a vanishingly rare crowd in these parts, right? Eg, MongoDB is AGPL; of all the reasons I've seen given for avoiding Mongo, the license is a new one on me.
If you've decided to only use GPLv2 or vanilla MIT licenses software that's totally fine, but it is unusual.
That seems extremely weird. Normal startups do nothing of the kind; do you have extremely weird investors?
> My investors were very specific about software licenses - we aren't allowed to use GPLv4 or AGPL at all.
Ah, there we go. First off, there's no such thing as GPLv4. Second of all, you do realise that avoiding even the AGPL puts you in a vanishingly rare crowd in these parts, right? Eg, MongoDB is AGPL; of all the reasons I've seen given for avoiding Mongo, the license is a new one on me.
If you've decided to only use GPLv2 or vanilla MIT licenses software that's totally fine, but it is unusual.