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smcameronyesterday at 9:10 PM5 repliesview on HN

In the U.S., anything machine generated is uncopyrightable.

Why would you put uncopyrightable code into your codebase?


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gpmyesterday at 9:14 PM

Why wouldn't you? Your codebase (if you're a business) exists to make you money, people being able to copy some unknown portions of it without further license if they somehow legally get their hands on a copy of it seems entirely irrelevant.

PS. I think this is much less clear and much less settled law than you are suggesting.

ebiesteryesterday at 9:20 PM

It's more nuanced. If I even have a few lines I can prove are mine, those parts are copywritable in the same way Pride and Prejudice is public domain but pride and prejudice and zombies is copyrighted.

siliconpotatoyesterday at 9:17 PM

Even worse...unmaintained code. Only the human-written one has a maintainer. The other one plagiariased by AI is instant legacy code

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hdgvhicvyesterday at 9:40 PM

Autocomplete has been around for decades

ranger_dangeryesterday at 11:32 PM

I think if you dig a little deeper you will find that the answer is not so black and white.