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I'm going to go against the flow here and say that worrying about this is similar to worrying about the license we give to snippets of code we copy-paste from other licensed code.

The reality is that we never attribute the original source because we copy-paste it, change it up a bit, and make it our own. Literally everybody does this.

I still care about licensing and proper attribution but the reality is that a snippet of code is not something so easy to attribute. Should we attribute all kinds of ideas, even the very small ones? How quickly is an idea copied, altered & reused? Can we attributes all the thoughts humans have?




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