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hyletic t1_ix9b165 wrote

What kind of person cares about reuse of a short snippet of their code?

What is the world coming to?

Quick, somebody, go and patent the quicksort algorithm and we can charge people $1.99 per execution.

Or, better yet, somebody patent the for loop.

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femmestem t1_ix9egoh wrote

The problem could arguably be the opposite. GNU and MIT license allow you to use the content with the understanding that you just perpetuate the license in your new work. If you use an AI, you don't know whether you can copyright the outputted IP or not.

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