1) You can have translation errors between people within a company. 2) Just because it was submitted for verification prior to publication doesn't mean that it

1) You can have translation errors between people within a company. 2) Just because it was submitted for verification prior to publication doesn't mean that it was read, or read thoroughly. Or heck, maybe it was read by the very employees who mistakenly thought it was real. Plausible if it was, as indicated in your comment, a german article. 3) Violating a software license has nothing to do with "truth", but lawfulness. These would probably be highly correlated traits in many individuals, but they certainly don't have to be.