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Post #1812815

2025-12-20 15:21 UTC

Software in general is actually very hard to copyright, as you cannot legally copyright code, the most you're allowed to do is patent the process the code is doing. More often the copyright applies to everything else, like the brand, and the UI

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  • @Mondez@lemdro.id 2025-12-20 15:38

    No, copyright applies specifically to the code, eulas and copyleft such as GPL rely on that fact. The logic itself can't be, but the specific implementation can. It's why clean room reverse engineering is fine, but a tainted decompilation direct from a binary may not be.

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