Software Freedom Conservancy: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

Posted Jul 5, 2022 13:37 UTC (Tue) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)
In reply to: Software Freedom Conservancy: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! by nim-nim
Parent article: Software Freedom Conservancy: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

Except in real world usage the similarity is with either the same project in which it is being used (so it's moot), or with something obvious and standard like boilerplate used in the same way by every user of a given library or api, which means the test of originality would not be met.

Software Freedom Conservancy: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

Posted Jul 5, 2022 16:47 UTC (Tue) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link] (1 responses)

If you’ve found a reliable legal way to determine originality automatically why are you even posting there? It would be worth its weight in gold (printed in extra large font on lead plates) to every single legal department of whole Fortune 500.

And if you did not, how can you claim the tool never outputs anything original?

Software Freedom Conservancy: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

Posted Jul 5, 2022 17:55 UTC (Tue) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link]

It is a very simple trick: actually use the tool you are talking about, to see what it does outside demos and funny gifs