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But what matters is the output, no ? Also, some people explicitly avoid reading codebases to avoid duplicating by mistake some copyrighted code. Not sure if t
by elcomet 5y ago
But what matters is the output, no ?
Also, some people explicitly avoid reading codebases to avoid duplicating by mistake some copyrighted code.
Not sure if this is true but I heard that it used to be forbidden to Microsoft developers to read open source code.
- sp332 5y agoOne problem is that copyright is not well-defined. They just have to convince a court that their use is "transformational" and not a "derivative work" and they're home free. Then it doesn't matter what the license says, because Microsoft isn't licensing your work.