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Comment by lenerdenator

6 hours ago

That means they're not complying with the license terms. Which would be stealing. Like I said it would be.

Copyright violation is not theft. Your effort to create something that can be effortlessly copied conveys to you no property. Society deems it beneficial to grant a time limited monopoly on copying it to spur innovation.

  • You wouldn’t steal a car!

    • Stealing a car - or anything tangible - means... the owner is very literally deprived of the benefits of owning said car/thing. Can't really say the same for a copied pattern of bits.

Thats not what you said. You said "copy the license terms". Copying a license isn't the same as complying with one.

Though it looks like in this case they didn't do either.