> and the people that may know, such as immediate supervisors, don't care to point it out for the same reason the developers are stealing it, it's much easier than the alternative.
If your company gets aquired one day, the code will probably be audited during the due diligence process. If licence violations related to copy-pasting is found, your team will be asked to remove the infringing code and your supervisor may be fired. This happened to my team in the first company I worked for (not the firing part though) : we had a lot of code which was just copy-pasted from lodash and the audit found it.
If your company gets aquired one day, the code will probably be audited during the due diligence process. If licence violations related to copy-pasting is found, your team will be asked to remove the infringing code and your supervisor may be fired. This happened to my team in the first company I worked for (not the firing part though) : we had a lot of code which was just copy-pasted from lodash and the audit found it.