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>>rntn+(OP)
You've got to love the idea that copyright doesn't apply to input code (from others), but does to their output code.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24117932-apple

>>anothe+K9
That's the way it's always worked. You read books to learn to code, then write code and you get paid for it, but that money doesn't trickle down to the writers of the books that taught you to code.

>>vasdae+oc
Those books you read were copyrighted.

>>freeja+Xc
Despite the books being copyrighted that doesn't give the authors any rights over the code I have written.

>>vasdae+Xd
It does when you produce the code verbatim, as happens frequently.

>>anothe+Be
Betcha I’ve spontaneously produced code that’s been written before. Who do I owe royalties to?

>>jnovek+5h
under what system of law?! -- there are at least four major economies in the world, and they all have different rules about these intermingled issues.