Judging by Eloraam's blog post about tubes and how she essentially created them in one night "after too much absinthe", I'd assume she's an adult who has a day job in programming.
EE automatically sets up EMC values for RedPower items of all things. Since RedPower and IC2 both use the Forge Ore Dictionary, EE recognizes IC2 copper, tin, etc. as their RP2 counterparts and outputs EMC.
No-one's gonna sue you over your dinky little server anyway. No modder has enough time, money, or patience to actually sue you for using their mods in an "ILLEGAL MODPACK WAAAAAAAH".