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by marginalia_nu 1152 days ago
Well yeah, we've already seen exactly this:

https://twitter.com/StefanKarpinski/status/14109710611816816...

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In almost any other scenario this would be evidence. But Fast Inverse Square Root isn’t some tightly held secret. That exact code, with those specific comments included, is found in the Wikipedia page for that algo:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

The usage in Wikipedia is probably fair use, but it's still copyrighted, even without being a secret
Yeah, it's still GPL though.
True.
OK that tracks as more than just lazy comments lookalikes.