Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t...
by IncRnd on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:35PM
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> Words and sentences aren’t copy written, books are, so when exactly are a collection of words a book?
If that were true, then 20 people could each steal a single chapter from a book, and one of the people could combine those 20 chapters into a new copyright-free book. That's clearly false.
Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t...
by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday July 03, 2021 @05:43PM
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Did I say anything about paragraphs or chapters? Didn’t I specially write there is nuance?
And for your strawman, the assembly of uncopywritable components into a copywriten work, would still be a violation.
So we agree that copywriter is somewhere between the paragraphs and chapters and the book. So why are tiny code excerpts “a problem”?
Quite the opposite. We all get a tiny bit better with good information like this. This is what the internet should be for, evolving, learning from past mistakes, information availability.
If the discussion was “I clicked this button and got someone’s entire chat platform” that would be different. Words and sentences aren’t copy written, books are, so when exactly are a collection of words a book?
There is nuance, and the linked page has none. But that’s fine, that guy is free to pull his content off GitHub. This seems like a useful feature for other people who want to make things first and foremost.