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> Basic license management incl. library vetting is part of it. This depends on whether you consider Compliance to be part of software engineering or a separat
by aleph_minus_one 1y ago
> Basic license management incl. library vetting is part of it.
This depends on whether you consider Compliance to be part of software engineering or a separate discipline. At least in most companies the compliance department is different from the software development/IT department, because the necessary skills are very different and barely transfer.
- nhinck3 1y agoI mean it's basic human ethics, but I guess we are in an era where taking everything is fair game.
- anonym29 1y agoWelcome to human nature. We are a species that pathologically wants what we do not have, and often neglects to practice the golden rule.
- aleph_minus_one 1y ago> often neglects to practice the golden rule There exist people who are anti-copyright, which has the implications that such people are (by the golden rule) also basically fine with having their works copied.
- singpolyma3 1y agoSure but here they weren't paying the work. Copying is encouraged. They were pretending they made it and owned it. That is not.
- oaiey 1y agoI also have a different department for architecture or testing. Still part of software engineering. GPL vs. MIT is basics!