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Copyright and patent are different. Also, while you can’t copyright an algorithm, your specific source code that implements it is copyrighted (assuming it’s suf
by lilyball 5y ago
Copyright and patent are different. Also, while you can’t copyright an algorithm, your specific source code that implements it is copyrighted (assuming it’s sufficiently original).
In this case it’s not implementing the algorithm, it’s copying a particular famous implementation, down to the comments.