It didn't say anything about a copyright violation. Removing all the extraneous material seems like exactly why it wouldn't be a copyright violation.

"Why Recipes May Not Be Literary Works

For recipes, courts instead have looked at part (b) of the Copyright Act, stating, "In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."

https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/intellectual-property/...

This sort of thing produces cognitive dissonance if you take for granted a world where programs are copyrightable, though...