To rephrase in my own understanding of what you wrote:
1) Some engineers (or more broadly, software developers) do not respect copyright
2) Therefore you reasonably are skeptical of projects related to material under copyright.
3) It is not always obvious if a project is respectful of copyright.
Now, applying these #1,#2,#3 you believe they justify the outrage for this particular project.
I disagree, because outrage combined with a lack of understanding (#3) is pretty much my definition of a knee-jerk reaction and vastly counterproductive to the interests of copyright holders because it will make the dismissiveness you predict a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> you believe they justify the outrage for this particular project.
No, I believe it explains it.
> it will make the dismissiveness you predict a self-fulfilling prophecy.
That's the thing: both parties need to listen to each other. The problem here is not this particular project, but the fact that we are not addressing the bigger concern which is LLMs.
IMHO, it is completely useless to try to solve this particular case, because it will happen over and over again. We need to address the LLM issue.
1) Some engineers (or more broadly, software developers) do not respect copyright
2) Therefore you reasonably are skeptical of projects related to material under copyright.
3) It is not always obvious if a project is respectful of copyright.
Now, applying these #1,#2,#3 you believe they justify the outrage for this particular project.
I disagree, because outrage combined with a lack of understanding (#3) is pretty much my definition of a knee-jerk reaction and vastly counterproductive to the interests of copyright holders because it will make the dismissiveness you predict a self-fulfilling prophecy.