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Google and Meta aren't redistributing your code claiming that it's theirs and that you can re-license freely.



Only because they arrived later at the party.


Hm, I don't know about that. I think they do plenty of stuff with other data that crosses that same line but they have not crossed it with (explicitly copyrighted) code, and until they do I don't think we should argue that if they had been there before that they would have done it, they had ample opportunity.




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