Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
by daniel-thompson on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:29PM
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If any of the following are true, you can:
- The company's version is not sufficiently original. IANAL but there are many sites that do something similar to replit, as shown in the blog post.
- Your version is sufficiently limited that it falls under fair use, or sufficiently minimal that it falls under the "de minimus" exception*. The guy made his project by himself in 4 days, and explicitly mentions that it does not have, and he has no intention of adding, the features it would need to compete in the marketplace with replit.
- The company's version is not sufficiently original. IANAL but there are many sites that do something similar to replit, as shown in the blog post.
- Your version is sufficiently limited that it falls under fair use, or sufficiently minimal that it falls under the "de minimus" exception*. The guy made his project by himself in 4 days, and explicitly mentions that it does not have, and he has no intention of adding, the features it would need to compete in the marketplace with replit.
* https://www.jgschwartzlawblog.com/the-de-minimis-copyright-e...