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MBCook 16 hours ago

test_sum is assumedly relatively trivial. So as a lay person I’d expect some sort of obviousness test to apply. Like so much of the stuff in the Google/Oracle lawsuit.

But if you take all the individual tests used to test git as a whole, that seems far more unique. Seems like at that point you’re really having to duplicate the actual git internals, and that seems like it should be covered.

joshka 16 hours ago | parent [-]

> test_sum is assumedly relatively trivial. So as a lay person I’d expect some sort of obviousness test to apply. Like so much of the stuff in the Google/Oracle lawsuit.

Feel free to extrapolate to the threshold where it's not and at that point apply.

> you’re really having to duplicate the actual git internals

Copyright covers the expression, not the method. So the Rust function:

    fn sum(a: u8, b: u8) {
        a + b
    }
is distinct from the C function:

    int sum(int a, int b) 
    {
        return a + b;
    }
trumpdong 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That's not copyrightable because it's trivial.

joshka an hour ago | parent [-]

Please feel free to strongman. Extend the argument until it hits a point of non-triviality and then apply reasoning.