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Btw, I remember there was a law stating that the code less than 10(?) lines is not copyright-able, no?
by zura 12y ago
Btw, I remember there was a law stating that the code less than 10(?) lines is not copyright-able, no?
- voidlogic 12y agoThat would be a a silly rule, for better or worse 10 lines of Haskell might perform the computation of 500 line of Java (even if they took you the same amount of time to write.. heh).
- tekknolagi 12y agoOr, say, Befunge...
- zura 12y agoWell, maybe they made this rule in days when COBOL was in hype? ;)
- IgorPartola 12y agoMy first reaction was to say "it should be based on the number of CPU/GPU/*PU instructions". But then, there are things like this: http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html. I wonder how much actual new-ness you can pack into, say, 100 instructions on a modern CPU.
- Alupis 12y agoWrong -- Google lost the first of the Android/Java battles to Oracle for 9 lines of "copy/pasted" range check code.[1][2][3] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951575 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951480 [3] http://www.theverge.com/android/2012/5/9/3010404/judge-denies-oracles-motion-for-ruling-on-fair-use-says-new-trial http://www.theverge.com/android/2012/5/9/3010404/judge-denie...