Comment by autarch
5 years ago
I understand all that. The author claimed that all of the relevant design elements were part of repl.it's open source projects on GitHub.
5 years ago
I understand all that. The author claimed that all of the relevant design elements were part of repl.it's open source projects on GitHub.
That's not what I understood form the blog. I interpreted this:
> Every similarity between my project and Replit can be explained by looking only at GitHub repositories and blog posts that were published online by Replit itself, making them obviously not any kind of secret.
to mean some similarities are explained by a public blog post, not by a repo. A public blog post does not give you license to copy something.
Ah, that's a good point. It's unclear what exact design elements are being referred to, and whether they come from public source or a blog post.
Yeah, I'm afraid this is where the lawyer tells you the answer is fact specific and they're gonna need X hours at $Y/hr to answer, where X times Y is more than you're willing to spend to defend a hobby project from legal bullies.