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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by ruined on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:35PM (#27727046)
>That's not a law. That's a cautionary decision made by those companies or projects to make it more difficult for competitors to argue that code was copied.

Okay, so it's not law, it's just a policy compelled by preceding legal judgements. Case law, perhaps.

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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by zarzavat on Sunday July 04, 2021 @12:40AM (#27727267)
It's a policy compelled by the cost of fighting a court case compared to getting one dismissed.
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