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> You can't copyright algorithmic code snippets. It's like trying to copyright math. You might first investigate just how small the piece of code was on which
by SeanLuke 5y ago
> You can't copyright algorithmic code snippets. It's like trying to copyright math.
You might first investigate just how small the piece of code was on which nearly all of Oracle's case vs. Google rested.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722514
- jolux 5y agoThis is a misunderstanding of the case, as rayiner’s comment in that thread attests. That code was not the only code that was copied, there were also tens of thousands of lines of interface code that were the same. The case rested on whether the interface code was copyrightable. Oracle used that smaller sample as evidence that Google had copied carelessly from copyrighted material.