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I would ask your manager, and have it run by legal.

• Dansvidania 7y ago
  I did. My manager had no issue with it, but legal has been nothing other than ambiguous regarding the consequences faced by the open source project and its maintainers. They are very clear about how I should not be doing it in the first place (of which I am very aware of, and which is not what I am asking).
  • codingdave 7y ago
    They probably have to be ambiguous. We're talking about civil law here, not criminal, so there are no black and white statutes to say what would happen. If it went to court, the actual lawyers would look into legal precedence, argue over what is reasonable, and other lawyerly things. So the attorneys probably don't know the answer either. All they can do is CYA and say don't do it... which is exactly what they did.
• panpanna 7y ago
  Manager, yes. Legal, no way. Never talk to legal or HR about these sort of stuff.