On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:49:00 AM UTC-7, Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> > But may I ask, why is your company listening to these lawyers.
>
> Who should we listen to then?
>
> >  I'm not aware of any case law where someone got in trouble for 
> utilizing code published publicly by the author for the purpose of being 
> used (though I can imagine it, IF you're re-distributing the code in 
> question)
>
> We are only concerned about code we use with our SAAS, which the user pays 
> for.  We include twenty-four 3rd-party modules in out app.  And that 
> doesn't include all the dependent modules.
>
> >  AND you should have known better.
>
> I am not a lawyer and I can definitely see you aren't either.  The next 
> time the highway patrol pulls me over I'll say I didn't know better.  :-)
>

It's called the "reasonable 
person<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person>" 
test. A reasonable person would surely know that you can't go 120 MPH down 
the highway, even if you are small aircraft certified.

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