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Re:Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-li... by formerly_proven on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:00PM (#24955543)
With some of these minor contributions there is probably a debate about threshold of originality to be had: something that's not protected by copyright is in the public domain.
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Re:Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-li... by solomatov on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:29PM (#24955729)
IANAL, but my understanding is that simply reverting the contributions by these folks, and then independently reimplementing them should make the full copyright to be owned by the original author.

Could anyone comment here? What's the threshold for this?

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Re:Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-li... by aidenn0 on Sunday November 01, 2020 @02:28AM (#24957790)
I am also not a lawyer, but I have heard conflicting advice from different lawyers about what qualifies as "independent" so if the stakes are high, tread carefully.
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