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Re:French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL by JonChesterfield on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:54AM (#39591876)
If course you can copy a function from a GPL project. That's part of making a derived work. What with you deriving the function from the GPL project.

The violation is where you subsequently pass it off as a novel creation.

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Re:French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL by lo_zamoyski on Monday March 04, 2024 @04:37PM (#39596471)
But can we get around the GPL by transforming a function, in trivial ways, to produce an equivalent function to avoid having it fall under "derived work"?
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