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0 pointshollerith2y ago0 comments

>How many people here actually abide by the StackOverflow contribution license of CC-BY-SA when copying and pasting code from there?

I always thought that code snippets that small are not considered by the Courts to be eligible for 'copyright protection'.

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organsnyder2y ago

I always include a comment with the SO URL (though I haven't copied any code from SO in quite some time—it's not nearly as useful as it used to be).

gjsman-10002y ago

In that case, is Copilot regurgitating 25 or so lines of GPL code, less than 1% of the time, eligible for copyright protection?

CameronNemo2y ago

Why do you think it would only be 25 lines?

gjsman-10002y ago

Because that is about, so far, the longest piece of clearly, demonstrably unique code that has ever been shown to have been copied. The longest you’d ever be able to clearly convince a court with, at least.

https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581461734665367554/pho...

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0 pointshollerith2y ago0 comments

>How many people here actually abide by the StackOverflow contribution license of CC-BY-SA when copying and pasting code from there?

I always thought that code snippets that small are not considered by the Courts to be eligible for 'copyright protection'.

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organsnyder2y ago

I always include a comment with the SO URL (though I haven't copied any code from SO in quite some time—it's not nearly as useful as it used to be).

gjsman-10002y ago

In that case, is Copilot regurgitating 25 or so lines of GPL code, less than 1% of the time, eligible for copyright protection?

CameronNemo2y ago

Why do you think it would only be 25 lines?

gjsman-10002y ago

https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581461734665367554/pho...

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