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Re:UBlockOrigin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey b... by tikhonj on Thursday January 02, 2025 @03:39PM (#42578594)
The more direct solution would be a law that required distributing human-editable code alongside software. No need for copyright or anything remotely similar. Code being copyrightable would just be getting in the way at that point.

But in a world where that is politically infeasible, we have to use whatever tools we have at hand to get as close as we can. And, unfortunately, the tool we happen to have is the modern copyright regime.

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Re:UBlockOrigin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey b... by coldpie on Thursday January 02, 2025 @03:50PM (#42578720)
> The more direct solution would be a law that required distributing human-editable code alongside software.

Hmm okay yeah, I buy that. Good rebuttal, I retract my comment :)

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Re:UBlockOrigin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey b... by zeroonetwothree on Thursday January 02, 2025 @10:46PM (#42582171)
It's also possible such a law (in the US) would violate the first amendment (being "compelled speech").
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Re:UBlockOrigin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey b... by f1refly on Friday January 03, 2025 @12:55AM (#42582943)
Laws are just made up by people, we can make up new ones if we want.
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Re:UBlockOrigin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey b... by tikhonj on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:10AM (#42583645)
I mean, there's a reasonable argument that large swathes of current copyright law in the US also violate the First Amendment. I haven't read it yet, but the book No Law from Stanford University Press[1] makes that argument and has been on my to-read list for a while.

[1]: https://www.sup.org/books/law/no-law

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Re:UBlockOrigin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey b... by dns_snek on Friday January 03, 2025 @04:47AM (#42584195)
Do food nutrition labels violate the first amendment, being compelled speech?
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Re:UBlockOrigin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey b... by globular-toast on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:52AM (#42593497)
But nobody is compelling anyone to write and release software. It's no different to requiring food to include a list of ingredients or products to include safety standards references etc.
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