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Almost 2000 results for one of the comment lines. I'm not going to read through those or check the licenses, but I think it's safe to say that block of code exi

Almost 2000 results for one of the comment lines. I'm not going to read through those or check the licenses, but I think it's safe to say that block of code exists in many GitHub code bases, and it's likely many of those have permissive licenses. Given how famous it is (for a block of code) it's not unexpected. https://github.com/search?q=%22evil+floating+point+bit+level+hacking%22&type=code https://github.com/search?q=%22evil+floating+point+bit+level... A question that popped into my head is: if the machine sees the same exact block of code hundreds of times, does that suggest to it that it's more acceptable to regurgitate the entire thing verbatim? Not that this incident is totally 100% ok, but if it was doing this with code that existed in only a single repo that would be much more concerning.

Animats 5y ago
if the machine sees the same exact block of code hundreds of times, does that suggest to it that it's more acceptable to regurgitate the entire thing verbatim? From a copyright standpoint, quite possibly. This is called the "Scènes à faire" doctrine. If there are some things that have to be there in a roughly standard form to do a standard job, that applies. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A8nes_%C3%A0_faire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A8nes_%C3%A0_faire
- nextaccountic 5y ago
  This would need to first be tested in court; apparently Microsoft is happy in generating thousands (or millions) of violations, knowing most programmers don't enforce their copyright.