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> If you sent someone an email attachment pretending to be spreadsheet, but it actually contained a destructive virus, with an accompanying licence saying "by running this code you agree to accept all the damage done to your computer", that licence would be legally void.

But that's precisely what he didn't do, isn't it? He just put something up on his GitHub repositories. All the fuckwits who got bit by that, did so by knowingly and voluntarily downloading that stuff, or by knowingly and voluntarily using other software that did so.




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