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by kragen 1623 days ago
That's probably not viable under US copyright law, especially with the Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music precedent; if someone is going to reimplement the algorithms and concepts without a copyright license, they're better off not reading your code so they don't have to prove in court, to a computer-illiterate jury, that the aspects their code had in common with your code were really purely functional and not creative.