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It seems GS replaced license headers from files with their own license. Painting with broad brush strokes here, is stealing from a thief still stealing?


After considering that some more, it seems like the court could (and maybe should) have ruled that it was simply a misunderstanding of the open-source code's license.

It seems like a waste of everyone's time to even pursue a case such as this after it's determined that the person didn't have malicious intentions.

Could the owner of the modified code successfully sue Goldman Sachs?


On what grounds? If it was GPL'd code and GS was conforming to the GPL terms, what are they to be sued for?




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