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Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by z3t4 on Monday July 12, 2021 @05:06PM (#27815133)
You can't license a code snippet. You can only copyright/license a complete work, as in a complete app or library. Software patterns might work differently though!?
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Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by dec0dedab0de on Monday July 12, 2021 @05:28PM (#27815358)
Any portion of a work has a copyright the moment there is a tangible copy.

There is a uniqueness requirement, but it has nothing to do with length. A unique one liner would have a copyright.

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Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by z3t4 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:47AM (#27819110)
You can not take the source code of an app, change a few lines, and then call it your own. You can however make your own app by stealing a few lines of code here and there... funny enough many companies write code so that all functions depend on all other functions making it impossible to reuse any parts of the code in another app (but i think that is not deliberate)
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