Comment by wmf
16 days ago
If you mix proprietary human-written code with uncopyrightable public domain code, the result is still proprietary. There's no reverse virality. There's no problem to fix here.
For example, every proprietary OS includes public domain SQLite and it's fine.
Are you sure uncopyeightable and public domain is the same?
No, but what's the alternative theory?
Only the parts that have human authored segments are copywritable.
That percentage shrinks every day. Someday soon it will be small enough to eliminate most of their copyright protections.
They are, presumably, competant enough to know this.
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