I'm thinking that the relevant question would be whether the part where we want to know if is copyrightable is an intellectual invention of a human mind. "Inge

I'm thinking that the relevant question would be whether the part where we want to know if is copyrightable is an intellectual invention of a human mind. "Ingesting someone else's code" does not seem very useful here - it's hardly quantifiable, nor is "ingestion" the key question I believe.