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> Basic license management incl. library vetting is part of it.

This depends on whether you consider Compliance to be part of software engineering or a separate discipline. At least in most companies the compliance department is different from the software development/IT department, because the necessary skills are very different and barely transfer.






I also have a different department for architecture or testing. Still part of software engineering.

GPL vs. MIT is basics!


I mean it's basic human ethics, but I guess we are in an era where taking everything is fair game.

Welcome to human nature. We are a species that pathologically wants what we do not have, and often neglects to practice the golden rule.

> often neglects to practice the golden rule

There exist people who are anti-copyright, which has the implications that such people are (by the golden rule) also basically fine with having their works copied.


Sure but here they weren't paying the work. Copying is encouraged. They were pretending they made it and owned it. That is not.



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