Oh, I'm not saying what they did wasn't illegal (tho IANAL, so I can't say whether this would indeed be considered copyright infringement and warrant damages in

Oh, I'm not saying what they did wasn't illegal (tho IANAL, so I can't say whether this would indeed be considered copyright infringement and warrant damages in Germany). I'm just saying that forgetting that your autoformatter strips license comments when you copy permissively licensed third-party code into your codebase is a different level of impolite than using copyleft licensed third-party code with no intention to adhere to the copyleft restriction.