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0 pointsaleph_minus_one8mo ago0 comments

> 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.

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oaiey8mo ago

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

GPL vs. MIT is basics!

nhinck38mo ago

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

anonym298mo ago

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

aleph_minus_oneOP8mo ago

> 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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