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>In the not-so-distant future: Code snippet scanning for copyright infringement Will never happen. Can you imagine what would occur if Github started harrassin
by panny 6y ago
>In the not-so-distant future: Code snippet scanning for copyright infringement
Will never happen. Can you imagine what would occur if Github started harrassing private repo owners for including GPL licensed code? Or automatically making them public? All their customers would bolt immediately. Copyright infringement is Github's bread and butter.
Stack Overflow attribution is equally unlikely. The same group that says Oracle's claim that Java's API is not original and unworthy of copyright protection, cannot then turn around and claim 30 lines of code from SO is original and deserves recognition.
- detaro 6y agoMany companies pay good money for scanning services like that, so Github adding it to their Enterprise offerings would make sense. (No clue how you get to "harassing" and "automatically making them public" from that suggestion...)
- dec0dedab0de 6y agoStack Overflow attribution is equally unlikely. The same group that says Oracle's claim that Java's API is not original and unworthy of copyright protection, cannot then turn around and claim 30 lines of code from SO is original and deserves recognition. I would bet most stack overflow answers don't qualify as copyrightable, at least in the US. Though I think automatically finding copied stuff would be very useful. Any time I copy something small I try to include a link to where I got it from, if someone has to troubleshoot my code it may help them to see where it came from.
- neuromanser 6y ago> Can you imagine what would occur if Github started harrassing private repo owners for including GPL licensed code? Why would Github do that? It's perfectly fine to not distribute code you received under the GPL. The license just says that if you do distribute the code in binary, you must provide recipients with the source as well.