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What worries me the most about these comments is: 1) how many software developers that do not understand how licenses and copyright work 2) how many software developers that feel entitled to use someone else's code and default to feeling offended when they feel they've been mislead 3) how many software developers that are not focusing on the most important thing, which is how embarrassed you should be that you imported this code in your codebase to begin with.


I wholeheartedly agree. It feels a bit like a debate about speed limits: "I'm really only a couple kph/mph over it. The speed limit here is stupid anyway."

I am however glad this issue came up. The author does not appear to want to screw anyone over legally on this - so why not take it as a lesson learned and go from there?




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