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Is it ethical to use code while not agreeing to the license it is provided under?

The license doesn't say "You can't call the author out when they make a bad decision"

I agree that this is a good discussion to have, but maybe we should include the responsibility that people who so easily include potentially untrusted code have in this?

This is free code, responsibility to check may need to have a social shift to those who use it.

What are the ethics? The developer isn't interested in maintaining it. Someone else was. So the developer gave it to that interested party.

I feel like 90% of the open source libraries I've written are maintained by someone other than me now. If that's considered unethical, next time I'll just not open-source it.