Do we have any idea what "legally significant" or "legally insignificant" means here?

tao_oat 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> It uses the definition of "legally significant" from the GNU Project maintainer guidelines, which holds that the threshold is ""around 15 lines of code and/or text"" to qualify as significant for copyright purposes.

From the page itself, linking to https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Sign....

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duzer65657 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm trying to be charitable here but a summary is literally the third sentence of the post, with the full definition linked:

>> It uses the definition of "legally significant" from the GNU Project maintainer guidelines, which holds that the threshold is ""around 15 lines of code and/or text"" to qualify as significant for copyright purposes. GCC maintainers may, however, choose to accept legally significant test cases that are generated by an LLM.

Does anyone read more than the headline before jumping to the comments anymore?

	▲	prologic 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I actually read one of the linked comments pointing to the source code of the page, not the article itself (until after) :D And not to play the blind card, but you should try zooming in your screen (if you have the capability) and try to read where you can only see at most a line at a time and a few characters and see if you miss things too! Being blind isn't fun!

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prologic 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nevermind:

It uses the definition of "legally significant" from the GNU Project maintainer guidelines, which holds that the threshold is "around 15 lines of code and/or text" to qualify as significant for copyright purposes.