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Hypothetically, they could prove infringement by presenting a hash or a trusted timestamp of the source-code. But maybe they’ll be lucky and the code will have
by gkop 5y ago
Hypothetically, they could prove infringement by presenting a hash or a trusted timestamp of the source-code.
But maybe they’ll be lucky and the code will have intact copyright headers!
- kazinator 5y agoThey have nothing: they lost the code. So no hashes or copyright headers. If you find the source somewhere, and nobody else does, you're the only posssessor of the copyright headers, and can scrub them from any copy you show to anyone else.
- mikewarot 5y agoIt would be interesting to see that legal theory tested in court.