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dgellowtoday at 4:03 PM1 replyview on HN

We are talking about Debian, a free software that cares a lot about the licensing of its packages. The licensing and authorship is an essential element of the project


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alightsoultoday at 4:30 PM

Yes, because they want to avoid trade secret lawsuits is what I understand? Computer generated output including code is in the public domain according to the us copyright office, so licensing and authorship are only relevant due to trade secrets is what I understand