if its fair use for musicians to a "sample" snippets of each other's code maybe its okay in software too. 80 lines out of tens of thousands is about the same the interval that a sample occupies in a 2 minute song.
Interesting that you mention that. 80 lines out of the 3 million that Linux 2.4 has is equivalent to a 0.0032-second "sample" from a 2-minute song. A single note takes more time than that.
I can just imagine one musician suing another because they stole one note from their song.:)
Naturally, that single note turns a song which was the music equivalent of a bicycle into the music equivalent of a luxury car. Therefore, this thief would have to pay $1 billion worth of lost sales incurred by the illegal transfer of this note.
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Interesting that you mention that. 80 lines
out of the 3 million that Linux 2.4 has is equivalent to a 0.0032-second "sample" from a 2-minute song. A single note takes more time than that.
I can just imagine one musician suing another because they stole one note from their song.
Naturally, that single note turns a song which was the music equivalent of a bicycle into the music equivalent of a luxury car. Therefore, this thief would have to pay $1 billion worth of lost sales incurred by the illegal transfer of this note.