Software Licenses prove no obstacle to abuse by abusive actors (eg: HESSLA)

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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/22/nsa-gchq-targeted-kaspersky/
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2015/06/22/gchq-warrant-renewal/

GCHQ felt it needed [secret] legal cover to conduct [the activity], writing in
the warrant renewal application that the practice could otherwise be “unlawful”
and amount to “a copyright infringement or breach of contract."
...
The warrant ... applies ... to intellectual property ... and to
certain categories
of domestic policing.
...
In each case it was necessary to use this warrant as the product license
explicitly forbade [the activity].
...
etcetera...