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Glyph

@diazona In some sense it is not even a novel policy. If you were caught stealing code from another open source project, or from your employer's proprietary codebase, you'd be banned in the same way. Using an extremely slow probabilistic token generator to file off the copyright notices is not meaningfully different than using a text editor to do the same thing.

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Glyph

@diazona The only reason I even need to say anything is that contributors are being somewhat deliberately mislead by Github's speculative legal reasoning here.

Eric Carroll

@glyph
You are doing exactly the right thing.

I speak as a former technical expert witness before the Copyright Board of Canada during the Internet copyright wars.

My advice to clients is stay far away from this technology until litigation has settled its copyright status. You can't afford to be the test case. Or the loser of the test case.

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