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Re:Ask HN: Why are there open-source software licenses? by rer on Thursday September 29, 2016 @10:27PM (#12610192)
Sentences are creations. Does this mean every sentence we write on HN or say to each other by default is closed and needs a license?
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Re:Ask HN: Why are there open-source software licenses? by gus_massa on Thursday September 29, 2016 @11:12PM (#12610331)
Actually yes, but so most sites has some legalese in the TOS and there is also fair use.

IANAL. TINLA. You can probably quote a comment from one HN user, but if you copy all the comments from one "famous" user of HN and write a book with them, then you'll probably get some copyright problems.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are there open-source software licenses? by volaski on Thursday September 29, 2016 @10:51PM (#12610278)
Nope, your sentences are not as valuable as you think. Neither is mine. But a great book containing thousands of sentences is valuable enough to to be purchased.
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