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account42 on July 11, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Cop...

Without adhering to the conditions of the GPL you have no license to redistribute the code and are therefore infringing the copyright of the author.

FireBeyond on July 11, 2024 [–]

Apparently, the court disagrees with you, and doesn't find "emitting" the code a copyright infringement.

It'd be a long bow to draw to say that what is akin to a search result of a snippet of code is "redistributing a software package".

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