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I really doubt that you could defend the copyright to a snippet like this in court. Saying it's CC BY-SA is all well and good, but if it's unenforceable in real
by rozab 7y ago
I really doubt that you could defend the copyright to a snippet like this in court. Saying it's CC BY-SA is all well and good, but if it's unenforceable in reality it's meaningless
- wincy 7y agoI recently had the strange experience of writing a Promise.allSettled implementation in Node.js, but it wasn't quite working. I checked Stackoverflow and found an implementation that was almost line for line what I'd written.
- nkrisc 7y agoI would imagine that's pretty common, especially for small helper functions for a very specific task. There might really only be one real logical way of doing it. How many different ways could you really implement leftpad?
- dsego 7y agoApparently whatever ended up in npm was shockingly horrible. [The Error of Our Ways • Kevlin Henney] https://youtu.be/IiGXq3yY70o?t=1368 https://youtu.be/IiGXq3yY70o?t=1368 [slides, page 32] https://gotocon.com/dl/goto-berlin-2016/slides/KevlinHenney_TheErrorOfOurWays.pdf https://gotocon.com/dl/goto-berlin-2016/slides/KevlinHenney_...
- umanwizard 7y agoWhy don’t you think it’d be enforceable?