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		btilly on March 21, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal pr... In theory, functionally important language should be uncopyrightable. This is the same world of theory in which software is not subject to copyright...

thaumasiotes on March 21, 2017 [–]

To be fair, making that distinction would imply that e.g. minified code is uncopyrightable while pretty-printed code with descriptive variable names is subject to copyright.

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