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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by bootlooped on Saturday July 03, 2021 @09:24PM (#27726581)
That function appears in hundreds, if not thousands of GitHub repos. It's plausible that it's the most famous block of code ever. Are all those repos guilty of copyright infringement?

https://github.com/search?q=float+Q_rsqrt%28+float+number+%2...

The only ways this argument could be less alarming to me is if people were bothered that it was writing the same Hello World as somebody else, or that it was naming variables "foo" and "bar".

Let's wait until we have a bulletproof, egregious, and inexcusable case of it lifting code until we panic.

Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by betwixthewires on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:54PM (#27727117)
> Are all those repos guilty of copyright infringement?

If those portions of code are not licensed GPL, yes, it is copyright infringement.