Lights are on, no license... - Risk of deploying a website with unlicensed software

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Amsterdam lights are on ... but the license lights are out.


This seems unfortunate. It's kind of understandable if you have some software on a laptop that has an out of date license. But to build a website that has unpaid for software (Google Maps here) seems doubly unfortunate, and perhaps even a little careless...

but the good news is, the website basically still worked...

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