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> However the MIT license doesn't require that. That's not true. https://github.com/minimaxir/reddit-bigquery/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/minimaxir
by mintplant 11y ago
> However the MIT license doesn't require that.
That's not true.
https://github.com/minimaxir/reddit-bigquery/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/minimaxir/reddit-bigquery/blob/master/LIC...
> Copyright (c) 2015 Max Woolf
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> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- delinka 11y agoBut not necessarily presentations, reports, nor other non-software items.
- IkmoIkmo 11y agoHe also posted the code in the article, not just a presentation of the results of the code.
- g42gregory 11y agoI could be wrong, but aren't these items would be covered automatically under a general copyright?
- delinka 11y agoCopyright law specifies who owns (and therefore who controls) a 'work.' In the case of software, it does not specify licensing terms. (As opposed to lyrics, musical composition, musical recordings ... which do have compulsory licensing terms specified in law.) Neither the output of computer software, nor the ideas themselves within software, are protected by copyright. Not providing attribution is simply douchey.