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A comment on Ask HN: Is pseudocode copyrightable?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Is pseudocode copyrightable? by amichail on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @12:08AM (#616226)
The Wikipedia license is a copyleft license, which may present problems for software that is not open source.

I would also rather not credit a Wikipedia article in my closed source software unless it's really necessary.

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Re:Ask HN: Is pseudocode copyrightable? by spectre on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @01:51AM (#616342)
Somehow I don't think Wikipedia would sue you for implementing their pseudocode.
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Re:Ask HN: Is pseudocode copyrightable? by adelle on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @03:04AM (#616396)
I would rather credit Wikipedia as the source of a common "well-known" algorithm than leave the door open to claims from some third party.
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