Comment by aleph_minus_one
6 months ago
> 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.
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