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| May 24, 2020 at 3:54 | comment | added | jkdev | Copying a nine-line function (rangeCheck) was enough to qualify as copyright infringement, according to a U.S. district court inGoogle v. Oracle America. Other countries might have different standards, as you said, and I'm not familiar withhow Australian copyright law works -- however, I'd be careful and make sure to attribute even a few lines of code. | |
| May 21, 2020 at 17:11 | comment | added | 1 . | @EmilJeřábek - I'm not convinced it's quite as simple as that. Copyright law varies from country to country Even though "a very small part of someone else’s work can require permission (and hence attribution in this case) if that part is an important or integral part and was the result of skill and time", it's not clear to me that a few lines of code posted in response to a StackOverflow question automatically falls into that category. | |
| May 21, 2020 at 11:55 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | It’s quite trivial:everything you find anywhere on the internet is copyrighted unless explicitly stated otherwise. | |
| May 21, 2020 at 10:26 | history | answered | 1 . | CC BY-SA 4.0 |