Post #2900986
2026-04-19 19:07 UTC
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@ChuckMcManis@chaos.social 2026-04-19 19:24
@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange @cwebber@social.coop @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @ossguy@fedi.copyleft.org @richardfontana@mastodon.social I think the argument in that case would be similar to case law where textbooks can get a ‘new’ copyright even when they are just explaining facts that previous textbooks covered. There are also cases where decompiler/disassembler people were sued because they turned object code back into source code. (those suits didn’t succeed, it was part of the motivation for the DMCA clause on ‘decompiling’)
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@khleedril@cyberplace.social 2026-04-19 20:14
@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange @cwebber@social.coop @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @ossguy@fedi.copyleft.org @richardfontana@mastodon.social This could easily happen... the only problem is that they will not be very good, i.e. the open source community will do better to ignore them.