alt Hacker NewsI'm not sure "Person who answered a question didn't actually know the answer" is such a good defense, almost worse than "We didn't understand the license", because the implications of having such people in your company seems way wider then.
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buremba • yesterday at 5:35 PM
Compliance tech company who doesn't know about open-source. Interesting.
That is very much true. Lack of knowledge in a legal context is a very weak defense.
Generally speaking, open source ecosystem knowledge is not something that shows up in job descriptions, interviews, or regular training for non-technical staff in most software companies. Hopefully that will one day be the case but until then there is a high likelihood that misleading statements can be made accidentally.