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		butlerm on Dec 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source ... Copyright is not likely to subsist in a one or two line bug fix. There isn't enough creativity involved.

em-bee on Dec 5, 2021 [–]

yes, true, but you can expand the code in (c) until it is big enough to matter. that's just a quantitative issue. (a) and (b) are qualitatively different. the report could be contain a few hundred lines of text and it still would be the same case.

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