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> Any reasonable person can expect that the MIT license on this code is valid and authorized by the rightsholder.

Yep, that's the reasonable default position.

If however, the author of the code wrote a length article about how they'd developed this code while working for a company (not in their spare time), and you happen to read the article in question... then for that specific repo you might look at it differently.

The article in question doesn't clarify things regarding the Box derived code, nor whether they sought and received permission from Uber prior to publishing. Absent both of those, I'd personally not use code from this repo.

That's just me being risk-adverse here, as I don't personally have a use for the code. Others might make different choices. :)



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