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At least 3/4 of those 4000 lines is directly copied from Skype, and that's just one file. I don't think that's small enough to not matter; anyway, if it really
by Xuzz 14y ago
At least 3/4 of those 4000 lines is directly copied from Skype, and that's just one file. I don't think that's small enough to not matter; anyway, if it really was so small, it should easily have been rewritten with original code.
- caf 14y agoIt's the size compared to the size of the relevant copyrighted work that matters, not compared to the size of the work it's copied into.
- jahewson 14y agoNo that's a simplistic approach. Both matter, for example one volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica is a very small portion of the overall work, but it cannot be freely copied. Likewise if you write a book a million pages long, copying entire chapters does not suddenly become ok.
- caf 14y agoIt is my understanding that "the relevant copyrighted work" in the Encyclopedia Britannica example is likely to be the article rather than the entire encyclopedia.