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Imagine the liability of publishing any code if you are "responsible" for it. Meaning that you would be responsible for its improper use, or even use for illega

• salawat 5y ago
  You are though. Forget the legalese for a second. You wrote the code and put it out there. If you didn't, none of the uses of it would ever have come to fruition. A court of law may let you duck out for the time being, but when you trace the chain of effective physical causality backwards, at the end of the day, you write it, you're responsible for making possible it's applications. There is value to the code unwritten. That value is a clean conscience and true abscence of guilt or remorse for having enabled someone to do something monstrous. I laugh at people who think a legal disclaimer absolves one of moral culpability. If only it were that easy.
  • seba_dos1 5y ago
    I wonder how do the makers of kitchen knives sleep at night.