Kudos for stepping in here, but I think the team at Microsoft need to do some more investigation, no?
Microsoft is a large, wealthy corporation has a big target painted on its back, and, consequently, CELA (corporate, external, and legal affairs) are, for good reason, a very strong force inside Microsoft. You can't just grab some code from someplace at Microsoft. Your PM has to run it past your division's CELA rep, look at the terms, assess exposure, etc. Did that happen?
If not, that's a big hole and you should probably beg forgiveness from them as you ask for an audit of every other piece of code you've picked up.
If it didn't happen, well, I suspect someone in your group just became the new Nelson, the hapless developer, in Microsoft's Standards of Business Conduct videos. You really don't want to be Nelson.
Microsoft is a large, wealthy corporation has a big target painted on its back, and, consequently, CELA (corporate, external, and legal affairs) are, for good reason, a very strong force inside Microsoft. You can't just grab some code from someplace at Microsoft. Your PM has to run it past your division's CELA rep, look at the terms, assess exposure, etc. Did that happen?
If not, that's a big hole and you should probably beg forgiveness from them as you ask for an audit of every other piece of code you've picked up.
If it didn't happen, well, I suspect someone in your group just became the new Nelson, the hapless developer, in Microsoft's Standards of Business Conduct videos. You really don't want to be Nelson.