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> they could have lifted it off a codebase that doesn't allow it

Ah. But then someone else is guilty of redistributing code without permission.

But you're suggesting, GitHub should implement something like ContentID but for code. Which should be cheaper (since code is cheap to analyze, while videos are much more bandwidth-intense). And this would kill two birds with one stone.




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