[extrapickles]

TrackIR uses a shitty poem as part of its initialization routine so it will fall under copyright so the makers can control who writes software for it.

[duskwuff]

That seems unlikely to hold up in court. Sega v. Accolade was a very similar situation, and the court found that Accolade's use of a copyrighted string (the "Trademark Security System") was acceptable as an unavoidable requirement of Sega's console.

Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade

[B0073D]

Do you have a source for that? (no pun intended)

[extrapickles]

You can find one of their DCMA notices here: https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/63305#