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		ruined on July 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted co... >That's not a law. That's a cautionary decision made by those companies or projects to make it more difficult for competitors to argue that code was copied. Okay, so it's not law, it's just a policy compelled by preceding legal judgements. Case law, perhaps.

zarzavat on July 4, 2021 [–]

It's a policy compelled by the cost of fighting a court case compared to getting one dismissed.

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