>If you copy & paste code, strip the license, claim it's your code, and sell it for money, we consider you the scum of the earth. That's just not something that

>If you copy & paste code, strip the license, claim it's your code, and sell it for money, we consider you the scum of the earth. That's just not something that decent people do. Meh - I'd speculate it's a result of an underpaid coder with too much work - I've seen these kinds of projects before - people with connections in the public sector get the contract and then basically hire the lowest cost developers available. > Just like a musician is expected to know that they need clearance for samples, or journalists know they need permission for publishing a photo, a programmer is expected to know that they need a license for reusing other people's code. And yet those get violated all the time, even in big time publications and by big time artists. I'm not defending the guy who did it - he did something wrong, but they corrected it and malice attributed to project seems misplaced. On the flip side I think this could be handled better industry wide - like we already have security vulnerability scanning tools bundled with major code hosting platforms, they should probably figure out a way to do copyright infringement warnings .