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by williamcotton 1321 days ago
Yeah but those licenses don’t matter if it is fair use or if the sections of code were not covered by copyright in the first place.

I agree that if SSO [0] didn’t exist that it would create poor incentives for open source software but that is not what these tools accomplish. They are the poetic equivalents of rhyming dictionaries. Should I figure out everyone that has rhymed “book” with “look” when I publish a new song?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure,_sequence_and_organi...