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prologictoday at 12:29 PM3 repliesview on HN

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


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tao_oattoday at 12:32 PM

> 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....

duzer65657today at 12:35 PM

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?

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prologictoday at 12:32 PM

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.