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by HPsquared 351 days ago
"Transformative" is a legal term with a specific meaning. The copyrighted work has to be transformed somehow rather than copied.

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

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Ahh, good pick up. Thanks, I definitely had the wrong understanding of transformative. Mostly around transforming the use case.