For all you 'intelligent' people out there, define 'steal' for me.
UNLAWFULLY taking away other people's property without their consent.
And now you show yourself for who you are. That is only HALF of the definition. Are you going to put the whole definition or do you want me to do it??
Be my guest, because to me, stealing is exactly that: unlawfully taking away other people's property without their consent. So I'm curious.
Read
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define+steal&ie=&oe=Yeah:
"take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it"
So if you HAVE the legal right, it is not stealing, right ! Given that the guy HAD the legal right (the code was the law), it was not stealing.