Comment by rpdillon
4 days ago
You're ignoring that adding non-copyrightable code to a collection of copyrightable code makes the collection copyrightable. The folks that wrote the policy are also ignoring that. It's simply a legal misunderstanding, because (I suspect) they didn't actually consult a lawyer, and their reading of precedent is overly broad.
> You're ignoring that adding non-copyrightable code to a collection of copyrightable code makes the collection copyrightable.
That is true for public domain code.
It is not true (at this time) for machine generated code.