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I had no idea dmca could be used for source code. I feel like the merits of the claim could require argument. It's not like media where you're very clearly usin
by ASneakyFox 12y ago
I had no idea dmca could be used for source code. I feel like the merits of the claim could require argument. It's not like media where you're very clearly using some ones so g or picture.
- ceejayoz 12y agoCopyright's pretty crucial for a lot of software. The GPL, in particular, depends on copyright law to have any useful effect. Why would you think code isn't a creative work but a photo is?
- nwh 12y agoSort of fuzzy in some countries. In Australia categorising data is something not protected by copyright, say a phone books listings of numbers, because there's only one way to do that and there's no creative process involved. Some code could probably be argued to fit into that as well.
- gillianseed 12y agoAll open source software licenses rely on copyright to have any effect, not GPL in particular.
- ASneakyFox 12y agoI'm not saying its not legitimate copyrightable work. I'm saying the claims are hard to verify. There's no content id for closed source code. There's not even manual identification or just skimming to see if the claim might even have merit. All you have is a complaint. This is different from when its say a song. Its not hard to look at the song and say "yep thats metallica".